TERT and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Moreover, our study offers foundation for further demonstrating that the variants in the TERT-CLPTM1L genes are related to the risk of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, myeloproliferative neoplasms, glioma, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, and skin cancer.