TERT and breast cancer: The chosen cell lines included normal human mammary epithelial cells derived from primary tissue and immortalised with TERT expression (hMEC-TERT), 6 basal-like (HCC-70, BT-549, BT-20, MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-436, MDA-MB-468) and 4 luminal-like (BT-474, MCF-7, T47D, MDA-MB-361) breast cancer cell lines.