Recently, several GWAS have shown that the common variants of GCKR are associated with hyperuricemia and replicate among various ethnic populations, including the T allele of the SNP rs780094 found in the New Zealand European, Polynesian, and Chinese populations10,26,27 and the risk T allele of the SNP rs1260326 found in the Chinese and Japanese populations27–29. The gene discussed is GCKR; the disease is hyperuricemia.