Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PHKBP2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PHKBP2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), where PHKBP2 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PHKBP2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUSC and LUAD are the cancer types where PHKBP2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.