The HFN1B gene, which is associated with prostate cancer, may beancestry-specific for European Americans and Latinos but not for African-Americans(Waters et al., 2009); the presentelderly population presented the Native American haplotypes, which were homozygous.European MMP7, which contains cancer-associated mutations, wasassociated with prostate cancer in European populations in a previous GWAS (Cook et al., 2014). The gene discussed is MMP7; the disease is prostate cancer.