TERT and lung carcinoma: Jin et al. (2011) studied the impact of a functional minisatellite (MNS16A) polymorphism in the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene on the risk of lung cancer, and on survival of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in a case/control study that consisted of 937 lung cancer patients and 943 healthy controls.