Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CNTRL RNA is linked to patient survival in 28 of 34 cancer types, making it the most broadly survival-associated CNTRL data layer compared with 12 for mutation status and 5 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), where higher CNTRL RNA is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CNTRL expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as BRCA and SCLC show a favorable association.
ACC, BRCA, and LGG are the cancer types where CNTRL 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.