Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ACTL7A RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ACTL7A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in esophageal carcinoma (ESCA), where ACTL7A RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ACTL7A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KICH show the opposite, repressed pattern.
ESCA and KICH are the cancer types where ACTL7A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.