Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, IGKV1-13 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of IGKV1-13’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where IGKV1-13 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types IGKV1-13 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, KIRC, and COAD are the cancer types where IGKV1-13 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.