Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FAM189B Mutation is linked to patient survival in 2 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated FAM189B data layer compared with 27 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where higher FAM189B Mutation is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated FAM189B expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCEC show a favorable association.
HNSC and UCEC are the cancer types where FAM189B Mutation most reproducibly stratifies survival.