Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FAM43A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of FAM43A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where FAM43A mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types FAM43A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and LSCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

LUAD, LSCC, and HNSC are the cancer types where FAM43A 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 FAM43A 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
LUAD	Female	All	−0.677	<.001	8	view →
LSCC	Male	All	−0.575	<.001	6	view →
HNSC	Male	All	−0.360	.015	4	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 3 strongest of 3 lineages.

Exploration

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