Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, RNU2-28P RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of RNU2-28P’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA), where RNU2-28P RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types RNU2-28P is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BRCA, LUSC, and THCA are the cancer types where RNU2-28P tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.