LAPTM4B allele*2 is strongly associated with the susceptibility to HCC (Wang et al., 2012; Zhai et al., 2012), breast cancer (Fan et al., 2012), colorectal carcinoma (Cheng et al., 2008), gallbladder carcinoma (Yang et al., 2012), ovarian cancer (Xu et al., 2012), non‐small cell lung cancer (Tang et al., 2014), gastric cancer (Liu et al., 2007) and others (Meng et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2014). The gene discussed is LAPTM4B; the disease is hepatocellular carcinoma.