Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MIR16-1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MIR16-1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where MIR16-1 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MIR16-1 is over-expressed in tumor.
STAD and ESCA are the cancer types where MIR16-1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.