Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SPAM1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SPAM1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma (KIRP), where SPAM1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SPAM1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRP and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRP, COAD, and THCA are the cancer types where SPAM1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.