Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ATRX mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ATRX data layer compared with 25 for mass-spec protein and 7 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher ATRX mass-spec protein is associated with better overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ATRX expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LUAD and CCRCC show a favorable association.
LUAD, HNSC, and CCRCC are the cancer types where ATRX mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.