Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PCDH9-AS2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PCDH9-AS2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in liver hepatocellular carcinoma (LIHC), where PCDH9-AS2 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PCDH9-AS2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LIHC and KIRC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LIHC, KIRC, and CHOL are the cancer types where PCDH9-AS2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.