Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ANGPTL8 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ANGPTL8’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where ANGPTL8 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ANGPTL8 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LSCC and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LSCC, CCRCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where ANGPTL8 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.