“…Recently, high-throughput single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays have been used to search for CRC-susceptibility alleles by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and, to-date, identified 27 genome-wide significant low penetrance loci mapping to 8q24 (13,14), 18q21 (15,16), 15q13 (17,18), 11q23 (16), 10p14 (19), 8q23 (19), 14q22 (20), 16q22 (20), 19q13 (20), 20p12 (20,21), 1q41 (22), 3q26 (22), 12q13 (22), 20q13 (22), 6p21 (23), 11q13 (23), Xp22 (23), 2q32 (24), 12p13 (21,25,26), 5q31 (21), 1q25.3 (24,25), 10q24 (25), 10q22 (26), 10q25 (26), 11q12 (26), 17p13 (26) and 19q13 (26). Studies have suggested that some of these risk alleles may also affect patient survival (27-32); however, none of these survival findings, nor any prognostic biomarkers identified through the candidate gene analyses, have been validated in independent studies (33-35).…”