Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PTPRD-AS2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of PTPRD-AS2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where PTPRD-AS2 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types PTPRD-AS2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD and LUSC are the cancer types where PTPRD-AS2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.