Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, AFG1L mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated AFG1L data layer compared with 24 for mass-spec protein and 5 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher AFG1L mass-spec protein is associated with better disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated AFG1L expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as PDAC and CCRCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, CCRCC, and HNSC are the cancer types where AFG1L mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.