Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SOCS6 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SOCS6’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where SOCS6 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SOCS6 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, HNSC, and LSCC are the cancer types where SOCS6 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.