Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CLEC2D mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of CLEC2D’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where CLEC2D mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types CLEC2D is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC and PDAC are the cancer types where CLEC2D tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.