Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MTCO1P3 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MTCO1P3’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD), where MTCO1P3 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MTCO1P3 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PAAD and CHOL show the opposite, repressed pattern.
PAAD, BRCA, and KICH are the cancer types where MTCO1P3 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.