Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TMCO5A RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TMCO5A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where TMCO5A RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TMCO5A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as STAD and LUSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
STAD and LUSC are the cancer types where TMCO5A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.