Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, RNU4-49P RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of RNU4-49P’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where RNU4-49P RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types RNU4-49P is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRP and THCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
STAD, ESCA, and KIRP are the cancer types where RNU4-49P tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.