Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CEBPA mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of CEBPA’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where CEBPA mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types CEBPA is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC, LUAD, and HNSC are the cancer types where CEBPA tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.