The 5-prime region of the HOXA locus hosts 3 lncRNAs, namely HOXA10-AS, HOXA11-AS and HOTTIP. A recent study looked for variants of these 3 lncRNAs in a cohort of 1947 ovarian cancer patients (1201 of them of serous subtype) and 2009 control cases. Here, HOXA11 is linked to ovarian carcinoma.