We found for the first time that GAS5 rs2067079 (C>T) exhibited a consistent association with CCRT induced severe myelosuppression and severe neutropenia in the discovery set (OR=2.403, P=0.009; OR=2.454, P=0.015; respectively), the validation set (OR=3.653, P=0.027; OR=4.767, P=0.016; respectively), and the combined dataset (OR=1.880, P=0.007; OR=2.079, P=0.005; respectively). Here, GAS5 is linked to neutropenia.