EGFR and telomere syndrome: Multiple factors have been reported to be related to the progression of STS, including capillary morphogenesis gene 2 (CMG2) (Greither et al., 2017), HIF-2α protein (Nakazawa et al., 2016), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) protein (Yang et al., 2017) and microRNAs (Smolle et al., 2017).