Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MT-TS1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MT-TS1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in bladder urothelial carcinoma (BLCA), where MT-TS1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MT-TS1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BLCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BLCA and THCA are the cancer types where MT-TS1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.