TERT and ovarian carcinoma: The risk allele at rs7705526 has been shown to result in increased TERT promoter activity in luciferase reporter assays conducted in ER-negative breast, ER-positive breast and ovarian cancer cell lines (Bojesen et al. 2013), and was reported to be associated with TERT transcript levels in benign prostate tissue (Kote-Jarai et al. 2013).