Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, BCL11A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of BCL11A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where BCL11A mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types BCL11A is over-expressed in tumor.
LSCC are the cancer types where BCL11A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.