Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CDKN2D RNA is linked to patient survival in 23 of 34 cancer types, making it the most broadly survival-associated CDKN2D data layer compared with 4 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney chromophobe (KICH), where higher CDKN2D RNA is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CDKN2D expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as HNSC and KIRC show a favorable association.
KICH, ACC, and LIHC are the cancer types where CDKN2D RNA most reproducibly stratifies survival.
RNA survival associations by lineage
Ranked by sampling consensus. AUC1 and AUC2 indicate survival in the high- and low-expression groups, respectively; the lower AUC marks the poorer-surviving group. p-values are from the log-rank test.