Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, DNAAF2 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of DNAAF2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where DNAAF2 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types DNAAF2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LSCC, LUAD, and CCRCC are the cancer types where DNAAF2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.