Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, RNU4-34P RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of RNU4-34P’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney chromophobe (KICH), where RNU4-34P RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types RNU4-34P is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KICH show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KICH and KIRP are the cancer types where RNU4-34P tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.