TERT and type 2 diabetes mellitus: As seen in Table 3, the plasma levels of IL6 were comparable between T2D patients carrying the genotypes of TE genes: TERC rs12696304 G/C (GG, CC, and GC), p = 0.463; TERT rs2736100 C/A (CC, AA, and CA), p = 0.974; and ACYP2 rs6713088 G/C (GG, CC, and GC), p = 0.778.