AURKA and gastric cancer: Although AURKA SNP rs758099 is located in intron area, they also found that it could have an impact on gastric cancer development.30 Interestingly, Dai el al. used meta-analysis to indicate that AURKA SNP rs2273535 increased the risk of breast cancer especially among Asians, whereas, rs1047972 SNP reduced the risk of breast cancer in Caucasians 43.