Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, IGHD6-13 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of IGHD6-13’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where IGHD6-13 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types IGHD6-13 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD and READ show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, READ, and LUAD are the cancer types where IGHD6-13 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.