The SNPs of the WRN gene are associated with different cancers, including bone and soft tissue sarcomas (Nakayama et al. 2008), meningiomas (Bethke et al. 2008), non‐Hodgkin lymphomas (Guo et al. 2014), lung cancer (Rudd et al. 2006), gastrointestinal neoplasms (Li et al. 2012), breast cancer (Zins et al. 2015), and prostate adenocarcinoma (Wang et al. 2011). Here, WRN is linked to lung cancer.