Li et al. recently performed a GWAS of clinically- ascertained gout and identified the following three new loci for gout in Han Chinese: regulatory factor X3 (RFX3), potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily Q member 1 (KCNQ1) and breast carcinoma amplified sequence 3 (BCAS3) [8]. This evidence concerns the gene RFX3 and gout.