In a study of gastric cancer, Wang et al.17 investigated six selected SNPs located in the AKT pathway genes and found that the AKT1 rs2498804 GG genotype was associated with lower AKT1 activation in gastric cancer tissues, and consequentially the recurrence rate was reduced by 30.4%, and the survival rate was increased by 33.7% in patients who carried the AKT1 rs2498804 GG genotype. The gene discussed is AKT1; the disease is gastric cancer.