Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MAPK10-AS1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MAPK10-AS1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in bladder urothelial carcinoma (BLCA), where MAPK10-AS1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MAPK10-AS1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BLCA and THCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BLCA, THCA, and ESCA are the cancer types where MAPK10-AS1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.