Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FTH1P27 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of FTH1P27’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where FTH1P27 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types FTH1P27 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KICH show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, STAD, and THCA are the cancer types where FTH1P27 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.