TERT and hepatocellular carcinoma: Allelic and genotypic associations for TERT were highly significant, in the univariate analyses, for the comparisons HCC vs ArC (Pallelic=2.81×10−11, Pgenotypic 2.32×10−10) and HCC versus alcohol misuse but not for ArC vs alcohol misuse using combined genotype counts from the stage 1 and 2 data sets (online supplemental table 8; figure 2).