Linkage disequilibrium (LD) estimation between the 11 TERT SNPs that we genotyped in stage 1 in 1,047 non-Hispanic White controls showed a moderate pairwise correlation between rs2736100 and rs7726159 (r2 = 0.43; Figure 2B) but rs7726159, which we selected from NIEHS, is not in HapMap and so has not been genotyped in GWAS of ovarian or other cancers. Here, TERT is linked to cancer.