Finally, although we identified the TR1B1 STR through a method completely independent of GWAS, and for the first time analyzed the association of a polymorphism within the TRIB1 gene, it must be mentioned that several SNPs associated with prostate cancer have been detected by GWAS in the same locus than the TRIB1 gene (Gudmundsson et al., 2007, 2012; Srinivasan et al., 2016). Here, TRIB1 is linked to prostate carcinoma.