Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FAM236D RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of FAM236D’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA), where FAM236D RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types FAM236D is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BRCA are the cancer types where FAM236D tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.