Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PRRX2-AS1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PRRX2-AS1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), where PRRX2-AS1 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PRRX2-AS1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as UCEC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUSC, ESCA, and LUAD are the cancer types where PRRX2-AS1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.