Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, KLHL31 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of KLHL31’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where KLHL31 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types KLHL31 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC are the cancer types where KLHL31 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.