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