SHBG and prostate cancer: Nonetheless, co-localization of signals for several correlated traits and diseases (adiposity, UL, age-at-menopause, serum SHBG, predisposing for prostate cancer) to a genomic region overlapping the lncRNA locus may reflect complex linkage disequilibrium between 1q43 loci with significant effect size, pleiotropy or coordinated gene expression (Aissani 2014).