Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MIR34B RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MIR34B’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where MIR34B RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MIR34B is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, LUSC, and THCA are the cancer types where MIR34B tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.