Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TMEM235 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 4 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TMEM235’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where TMEM235 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TMEM235 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as THCA and LIHC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, THCA, and COAD are the cancer types where TMEM235 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.