Apart from lung cancer, glioma, and bladder cancer, our meta-analysis also investigated the association between the TERT rs2736100 polymorphism and risk of colorectal cancer (4 studies), MPN (4), gastric cancer (3), AML (2), breast cancer (2), melanoma (2), and thyroid cancer (2) as well as “other cancers” (16). Here, TERT is linked to cancer.