TERT and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: Pooled analyses all support the hazardous role of the TERT rs13172201 T allele in ESCC (CT genotype: OR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.16-1.61, P = 2.2×10-4; TT genotype: OR = 1.50, 95% CI = 1.19-1.91, P = 0.001, still statistically significant after Bonferroni corrections) (Table 3).