Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TNK2 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TNK2’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where TNK2 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TNK2 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and HNSC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
LUAD, CCRCC, and HNSC are the cancer types where TNK2 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.