Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, KRTAP5-11 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of KRTAP5-11’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma (KIRP), where KRTAP5-11 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types KRTAP5-11 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRP, BRCA, and KIRC are the cancer types where KRTAP5-11 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.