Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FAM180A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of FAM180A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where FAM180A mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types FAM180A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and LSCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
PDAC, LUAD, and LSCC are the cancer types where FAM180A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.