Translocations involving the region 0–100 kb upstream of TERT were both inter- and intrachromosomal (Fig. 2a and Supplementary Data 3) and included 170 SV breakpoints and 84 cancer cases, with the most represented cancer types including liver-biliary (n = 29 cases), melanoma (n = 17 cases), sarcoma (n = 15 cases), and kidney (n = 9 cases). Here, TERT is linked to sarcoma.