Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, RNU4-8P RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 8 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of RNU4-8P’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney chromophobe (KICH), where RNU4-8P RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types RNU4-8P is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KICH and THCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KICH, COAD, and THCA are the cancer types where RNU4-8P tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.
RNA tumor vs normal associations by lineage
Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in RNU4-8P RNA (log2); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.