Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, DMRTC1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of DMRTC1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where DMRTC1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types DMRTC1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC are the cancer types where DMRTC1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.