Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TMPRSS11BNL RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TMPRSS11BNL’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where TMPRSS11BNL RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TMPRSS11BNL is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as HNSC and KIRP show the opposite, repressed pattern.
HNSC, LUSC, and KIRP are the cancer types where TMPRSS11BNL tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.