Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SCEL-AS1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SCEL-AS1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where SCEL-AS1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SCEL-AS1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, THCA, and LUSC are the cancer types where SCEL-AS1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.