Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, IGHV3-32 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of IGHV3-32’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where IGHV3-32 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types IGHV3-32 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD and READ show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, READ, and LUSC are the cancer types where IGHV3-32 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.