TERT and cancer: Upon establishing haplotype analysis of TERT*(rs2736098 and rs2736100) variants, our team identified a perceptible association of TERT (rs2736098*A and rs2736100*T) haplotypes among HCC patients compared with cancer-free controls [24.5% vs. 14.8%, OR = 1.87, 95% CI = 1.17–2.98, p-value = 0.009], (Table 2).