Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, RPL31P28 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of RPL31P28’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where RPL31P28 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types RPL31P28 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as THCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, COAD, and HNSC are the cancer types where RPL31P28 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.