Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PHOX2B-AS1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PHOX2B-AS1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where PHOX2B-AS1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PHOX2B-AS1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as STAD and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
STAD, COAD, and READ are the cancer types where PHOX2B-AS1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.