Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SEMA3C mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SEMA3C’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where SEMA3C mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SEMA3C is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
PDAC, LSCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where SEMA3C tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.