Independent associations have previously been reported in TERT for breast cancer and telomere length.2 The telomere associations partially concur with our model for melanoma; the SNPs associated with telomere length are rs7705526, the SNP indicated by a green diamond in Figure 2b, and rs2736108, which is only nominally associated with melanoma in our analysis (p = 0.008). The gene discussed is TERT; the disease is breast carcinoma.