SET

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SET mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 7 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SET’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where SET mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SET is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

COAD, HNSC, and LUAD are the cancer types where SET 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 SET 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
COAD	All	IV	+0.617	<.001	11	view →
HNSC	Male	III,IV	+0.354	<.001	11	view →
LUAD	Male	All	+0.507	<.001	9	view →
LSCC	Male	II,III,IV	+0.620	<.001	8	view →
PDAC	Male	II,III,IV	−0.410	<.001	8	view →
OV	All	All	+0.493	.036	2	view →
CCRCC	Male	All	+0.099	.004	2	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 7 strongest of 7 lineages.

SET–COAD

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