Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, DNASE1L3 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of DNASE1L3’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where DNASE1L3 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types DNASE1L3 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, CCRCC, and LSCC are the cancer types where DNASE1L3 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.