TERT and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: As expected, TERT was shown to be significantly down regulated in both TERT low clones at the NPC stage (C1; fold change = −2.9, padj =  < 0.0001, C2; fold change = −1.68, padj = 0.02, combined; fold change = −1.10, padj = 0.0027).