DSTN

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, DSTN mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 7 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of DSTN’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

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

COAD, LUAD, and LSCC are the cancer types where DSTN 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 DSTN 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
COAD	Male	III,IV	−1.704	<.001	11	view →
LUAD	Female	III,IV	−0.507	<.001	9	view →
LSCC	Female	All	−0.613	<.001	8	view →
HNSC	Male	All	−0.317	<.001	8	view →
PDAC	Female	II,III,IV	−0.395	<.001	6	view →
CCRCC	Male	All	−0.121	.006	4	view →
OV	All	All	−0.693	.016	2	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 7 strongest of 7 lineages.

DSTN–COAD

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