Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MIR596 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MIR596’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where MIR596 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MIR596 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, LUSC, and BRCA are the cancer types where MIR596 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.