Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TRAV17 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TRAV17’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where TRAV17 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TRAV17 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUSC and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, LUSC, and BRCA are the cancer types where TRAV17 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.