Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MICA mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MICA’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where MICA mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MICA is over-expressed in tumor.

LSCC are the cancer types where MICA tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.

mass-spec protein tumor vs normal associations by lineage

Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in MICA mass-spec protein (log₂); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.

Lineage	Gender	Stage	Fold-change	p	Sampling consensus
LSCC	All	III,IV	+1.226	<.001	9	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 1 strongest of 1 lineages.

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