Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, OR1E2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of OR1E2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA), where OR1E2 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types OR1E2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA and KIRP show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BRCA and KIRP are the cancer types where OR1E2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.