TERC and cancer: Variants in a gene cluster upstream-adjacent to TERC on human chromosome 3, which includes genes APRM, LRRC31, LRRC34 and MYNN, have been found to associate with telomere length [9,10,11,12,13,14], as well as related diseases, such as cancer and diabetes [9,11,15,16,17], in several human populations by multiple independent analyses.