Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, QRICH1 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of QRICH1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where QRICH1 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types QRICH1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, CCRCC, and PDAC are the cancer types where QRICH1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.