TERT and diabetes mellitus: The protective effect associated with carriage of TERT rs2242652:A remained significant after correction for sex, age, body mass index (BMI), type 2 diabetes and the top 15 PCs of genetic ancestry, but did not reach genome-wide significance (p=7.94×10−5; OR (95% CI)=0.63 (0.50 to 0.79) (online supplemental table 5) reflecting the loss of power associated with the high number of missing BMI and diabetes data points in the analysis (table 1).