PDGFRA

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PDGFRA mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 6 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PDGFRA’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where PDGFRA mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PDGFRA is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

HNSC, CCRCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where PDGFRA tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.

mass-spec protein tumor vs normal associations by lineage

Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in PDGFRA mass-spec protein (log₂); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.

Lineage	Gender	Stage	Fold-change	p	Sampling consensus
HNSC	All	IV	−0.845	<.001	11	view →
CCRCC	All	All	−0.703	<.001	7	view →
LUAD	Female	All	−0.351	<.001	6	view →
LSCC	Male	III,IV	−0.412	.001	5	view →
OV	All	All	−1.224	<.001	2	view →
COAD	All	All	−0.914	.014	1	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 6 strongest of 6 lineages.

PDGFRA–HNSC

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