highly significantP value = 1.25 × 10 −10
Recently, a genome-wide association scan with a subsequent replication study involving over 67,000 individuals (7,473 cases and 42,938 controls) of European ancestry produced highly significant evidence of the strong association of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs11177 (C/T) with severe hip and knee OA ( P value = 1.25 × 10 −10 ), a missense polymorphism within the nucleostemin-encoding gene GNL3 19 .