SAAL1

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SAAL1 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 6 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SAAL1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where SAAL1 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SAAL1 is over-expressed in tumor.

HNSC, COAD, and CCRCC are the cancer types where SAAL1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.

mass-spec protein tumor vs normal associations by lineage

Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in SAAL1 mass-spec protein (log₂); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.

Lineage	Gender	Stage	Fold-change	p	Sampling consensus
HNSC	Male	IV	+0.523	<.001	11	view →
COAD	Male	All	+0.478	<.001	11	view →
CCRCC	Male	III,IV	+0.424	<.001	10	view →
LSCC	Male	III,IV	+0.845	<.001	8	view →
LUAD	Male	II,III,IV	+0.409	<.001	6	view →
OV	All	All	+0.443	.048	2	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 6 strongest of 6 lineages.

SAAL1–HNSC

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