Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, AGO4 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated AGO4 data layer compared with 24 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher AGO4 mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated AGO4 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as PDAC and LSCC show a favorable association.
LUAD, PDAC, and LSCC are the cancer types where AGO4 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.