We found that eight CRC-risk SNPs (rs13086367 at 3q13.2, rs280097 at 4q22.2, rs16892766 at 8q23.3, rs117079142 at 8q24.11, rs11255841 at 10p14, rs4444073 at 11p15.4, rs1497077 at 14q22.1 and rs9924886 at 16q22.1) and three CRC-risk genes (EPB41L2, ADAMTS15 and F2), were nominally associated with survival under an additive model (Table 2, Supplementary Table 1). The gene discussed is ADAMTS15; the disease is colorectal carcinoma.