Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MANEA mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MANEA’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where MANEA mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MANEA is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
PDAC, CCRCC, and HNSC are the cancer types where MANEA tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.