Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ANKRD49 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ANKRD49’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where ANKRD49 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ANKRD49 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC and LUAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC, PDAC, and LUAD are the cancer types where ANKRD49 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.