Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, HTR1A RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of HTR1A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where HTR1A RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types HTR1A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRC and PRAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, BRCA, and PRAD are the cancer types where HTR1A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.