FUT2

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FUT2 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of FUT2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where FUT2 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types FUT2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

HNSC, PDAC, and LUAD are the cancer types where FUT2 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 FUT2 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
HNSC	Male	IV	−1.414	<.001	8	view →
PDAC	Female	All	−1.036	.017	4	view →
LUAD	Female	II,III,IV	−1.030	.023	1	view →

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

FUT2–HNSC

Open the HNSC breakdown →