Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MS4A2 Mutation is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated MS4A2 data layer compared with 22 for mass-spec protein and 1 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher MS4A2 Mutation is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated MS4A2 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCEC show a favorable association.
LUAD, READ, and LUSC are the cancer types where MS4A2 Mutation most reproducibly stratifies survival.