Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NAAA Mutation is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated NAAA data layer compared with 27 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in small cell lung cancer (SCLC), where higher NAAA Mutation is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated NAAA expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as ESCA show a favorable association.
SCLC, DLBC, and UCEC are the cancer types where NAAA Mutation most reproducibly stratifies survival.