Similar associations were observed for two other highly correlated variants (r2 >0.8) on chromosome 11, namely rs183459 (p = 5.7 × 10−3) also located within NPAT and rs228592 (p = 5.5 × 10−3) located in intron 11 of ATM. No association was observed between SNPs at this locus and breast cancer risk for BRCA2 carriers (Online Resource 5). The gene discussed is ATM; the disease is breast carcinoma.