Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ATIC mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ATIC data layer compared with 23 for mass-spec protein and 8 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher ATIC mass-spec protein is associated with better overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ATIC expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as PDAC show a favorable association.
PDAC, HNSC, and LUAD are the cancer types where ATIC mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.