Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TRBV6-7 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TRBV6-7’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in stomach adenocarcinoma (STAD), where TRBV6-7 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TRBV6-7 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as READ and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
STAD, KIRC, and READ are the cancer types where TRBV6-7 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.