Unexpectedly, rs2853677 is associated only with lung adenocarcinoma and is not related to SCLC, although SCLC expresses similar levels of Snail1 compared with lung adenocarcinoma (Supplementary Figure S1) and SCLC expresses more TERT than lung adenocarcinoma [33, 34]. Here, TERT is linked to lung adenocarcinoma.