Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) analyses demonstrated the presence of TERT mRNA at different abundances in all 6 examined MCC cell lines, and 15/15 frozen and 31/33 FFPE tumor specimens (Fig. 1A, C and D, Table 2 and Supplementary Table S2 and S3). Here, TERT is linked to neoplasm.