A decade ago PTPRR variant rs1513105 was indeed linked to increased occurrence of major depressive disorder in females of the Chinese Han population (Shi et al., 2012), a finding that may be substantiated by PTPRR overexpression studies in mice that revealed depressive-like symptoms as a response to chronic mild stress (Li et al., 2016) if one assumes that the intronic variant results in increased expression levels for the gene. The gene discussed is PTPRR; the disease is major depressive disorder.