Across TCGA patient cohorts, HLA-DQB1 protein abundance is significantly associated with the RNA expression of many other genes, with 6,733 significant associations in total. LSCC shows the largest number of these associations.
The most reproducible HLA-DQB1-associated genes across cancer lineages are HLA-DQB1-AS1, HLA-DRB1, and HLA-DQA1. Each is linked with HLA-DQB1 in more than 9 cancer types. Because this analysis shows association rather than direction, both HLA-DQB1-to-partner and partner-to-HLA-DQB1 results are reported.
Each partner links to its own Q-omics profile. The scatter plot shows the strongest example, HLA-DQB1 versus HLA-DQB1-AS1 in UCEC, with a Pearson correlation of 0.57.