This SNP has been described in previous work as associated with hip fracture and decreased femoral neck bone mineral density in a study which included 11 516 hip fracture cases and 723 838 controls from the the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT, Norway), Umeå Fracture and Osteoporosis Study (UFO, Sweden), UK Biobank, Estonian Biobank, and FinnGen biobanks (Finland).32 This result underlines how genetic polymorphisms affecting HOXC8 seem to influence hip fracture risk in the general population. Here, HOXC8 is linked to hip fracture.