A GWAS of 1145 post-menopausal patients identified four separate SNPs in the FGFR2 intron associated with breast cancer susceptibility, and meta-analyses of a large cohort of case control studies indicate that such FGFR2-susceptibility SNPs are present across ethnic groups and in different breast cancer sub-groups, predominately hormone receptor-positive disease [232]. Here, FGFR2 is linked to breast carcinoma.