Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CLEC16A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of CLEC16A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where CLEC16A mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types CLEC16A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LSCC and PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, LSCC, and PDAC are the cancer types where CLEC16A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.