Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PPIAL4F RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PPIAL4F’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where PPIAL4F RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PPIAL4F is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC and KIRC are the cancer types where PPIAL4F tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.