Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NIPSNAP3A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of NIPSNAP3A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where NIPSNAP3A mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types NIPSNAP3A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, COAD, and CCRCC are the cancer types where NIPSNAP3A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.