Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SAR1AP4 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SAR1AP4’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where SAR1AP4 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SAR1AP4 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRC and LUAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, LUAD, and LUSC are the cancer types where SAR1AP4 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.