Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, GNPTAB mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of GNPTAB’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC), where GNPTAB mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types GNPTAB is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
CCRCC, LUAD, and LSCC are the cancer types where GNPTAB tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.