DBH

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, DBH mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of DBH’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where DBH mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types DBH is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

LUAD, HNSC, and LSCC are the cancer types where DBH tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.

mass-spec protein tumor vs normal associations by lineage

Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in DBH mass-spec protein (log₂); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.

Lineage	Gender	Stage	Fold-change	p	Sampling consensus
LUAD	Female	III,IV	−0.988	<.001	9	view →
HNSC	All	IV	−0.956	<.001	8	view →
LSCC	Female	All	−0.879	<.001	8	view →
PDAC	All	II,III,IV	−0.541	.049	1	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 4 strongest of 4 lineages.

DBH–LUAD

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