It is also important to note that germline variants in POT1 were reported to be associated with other types of cancer such as colorectal cancer (chubbet al. 2016), glioma (bainbridgeet al. 2015) and chronic lymphatic lymphoma (calveteet al. 2015; karamiet al. 2016; speedyet al. 2016). The gene discussed is POT1; the disease is colorectal cancer.