Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, OR4E1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of OR4E1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in thyroid carcinoma (THCA), where OR4E1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types OR4E1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as THCA and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
THCA and COAD are the cancer types where OR4E1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.