MECOM and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Regarding the SNPs outside the HLA region, the previous associations of rs1412829 at CDKN2A/2B (OR = 1.52, P = 3.75 × 10−5), rs31489 at CLPTM1L-TERT (OR = 1.22, P = 7.62 × 10−3), and rs6774494 at MDS1-EVI1 (OR = 1.15, P = 3.63 × 10−2) with NPC were replicated (Table 2).