Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NEB mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of NEB’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where NEB mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types NEB is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and LSCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, LSCC, and COAD are the cancer types where NEB tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.