Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PIMREG mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PIMREG’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where PIMREG mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PIMREG is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, LSCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where PIMREG tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.