Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, HLA-DQA2 Mutation is linked to patient survival in 2 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated HLA-DQA2 data layer compared with 30 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC), where higher HLA-DQA2 Mutation is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated HLA-DQA2 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as SKCM show a favorable association.
UCEC and SKCM are the cancer types where HLA-DQA2 Mutation most reproducibly stratifies survival.