Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, GCNAP1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of GCNAP1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where GCNAP1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types GCNAP1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRC and THCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, THCA, and PRAD are the cancer types where GCNAP1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.