ASCL2 and prostate carcinoma: By inspection, we also identified at least 10 additional transcription factors within 500 kb of 9 other GWAS loci, that are also reasonable candidates for contributing to prostate cancer risk: SOX13, ZFP36L2, ATOH8, DLX1 & DLX2 (same locus), GATA2, SKIL, SP8, ASCL2, and DPF1.