EMSY

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

The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where EMSY mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types EMSY is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

HNSC, PDAC, and LUAD are the cancer types where EMSY 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 EMSY 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
HNSC	Male	All	+0.215	<.001	8	view →
PDAC	All	All	−0.172	<.001	6	view →
LUAD	Male	II,III,IV	+0.109	.003	6	view →
LSCC	All	All	+0.101	<.001	4	view →

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

EMSY–HNSC

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