A Japanese GWAS of cervical cancer in East Asian populations involving 2609 cases and 4712 controls, which comprised of 1289 cases and 2718 controls from the previously reported Chinese study [79] and two newly reported Japanese studies (1320 cases, 1994 controls), corroborated two previously reported loci at rs115137622 (downstream HLA-DPB2) and rs8067378 (17q12) in association with cervical cancer and identified significant associations at 5q14 with SNP rs59661306 and at 7p11 with the SNP rs7457728. Here, HLA-DPB2 is linked to cervical cancer.