TERT and cancer: Overall, as shown in Table 4, a borderline significant association was observed between the TERT rs2736098 polymorphism and overall cancer risk in the homozygote comparison (AA vs. GG: OR = 1.25, 95% CI = 1.07–1.46), recessive genetic model (AA vs. AG+GG: OR = 1.22, 95% CI = 1.06–1.41) and additive genetic model (2*AA+AG vs. 2*GG+AG: OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.02–1.18) (Figure 1 and Figure 2), but no statistically significant association was found in the heterozygote comparison (AG vs. GG: OR = 1.02, 95% CI = 0.97–1.08) or the dominant genetic model (AA+AG vs. GG: OR = 1.08, 95% CI = 0.99–1.18).