Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, SPG21 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of SPG21’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where SPG21 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types SPG21 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LSCC and LUAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, HNSC, and LSCC are the cancer types where SPG21 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.