Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MIR548A3 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MIR548A3’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where MIR548A3 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MIR548A3 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, BRCA, and KIRC are the cancer types where MIR548A3 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.