Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, HMGN2P21 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of HMGN2P21’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA), where HMGN2P21 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types HMGN2P21 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BRCA and COAD are the cancer types where HMGN2P21 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.