In the advance, online edition of Nature Genetics this week, National Cancer Institute investigators Stephen Chanock and Patricia Hartge led a team of researchers who did a genome-wide association study to find variants linked to pancreatic cancer risk. The GWAS involved 3,851 cases and 3,934 controls from a dozen prospective studies and turned up eight SNPs at three loci on chromosomes 1, 5, and 13, including a chromosome 5 locus previously implicated in other cancer types.