LGALS3 and cancer: Moreover, other studies also reported associations with other types of cancer for SNPs in strong linkage disequilibrium with rs4644, such as the case for rs4652 and the risk of gastric carcinoma (Shi et al., 2017) or the molecular characteristics of colorectal cancer (Korkmaz et al., 2016) suggesting more mechanisms involving gal-3 in tumorigenesis.