Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SMAD1-AS2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SMAD1-AS2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where SMAD1-AS2 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SMAD1-AS2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BRCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
STAD and BRCA are the cancer types where SMAD1-AS2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.