Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SNORD114-2 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 1 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SNORD114-2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in bladder urothelial carcinoma (BLCA), where SNORD114-2 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SNORD114-2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as BLCA show the opposite, repressed pattern.
BLCA are the cancer types where SNORD114-2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.