Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PRKCA-AS1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PRKCA-AS1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where PRKCA-AS1 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PRKCA-AS1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA and THCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
STAD, LIHC, and UCEC are the cancer types where PRKCA-AS1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.