Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NANOG Mutation is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated NANOG data layer compared with 18 for mass-spec protein and 6 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in bladder urothelial carcinoma (BLCA), where higher NANOG Mutation is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated NANOG expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCEC show a favorable association.
BLCA, SKCM, and LIHC are the cancer types where NANOG Mutation most reproducibly stratifies survival.