SLC17A1 and gout: SNP rs1183201 in SLC17A1 was also corroborated to be associated with gout in New Zealand Caucasians [24, 25] and rs1165205 in SLC17A3 (in high linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs1183201 in HapMap-CEU, r2 = 0.889) was replicated in European whites [8].