Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, MTRNR2L2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of MTRNR2L2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC), where MTRNR2L2 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types MTRNR2L2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as UCEC and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
UCEC, COAD, and HNSC are the cancer types where MTRNR2L2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.