Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TMEM19 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TMEM19’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where TMEM19 mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TMEM19 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD and CCRCC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LSCC, COAD, and HNSC are the cancer types where TMEM19 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.