Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TRBV7-3 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 6 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TRBV7-3’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where TRBV7-3 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TRBV7-3 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUSC and COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, BRCA, and UCEC are the cancer types where TRBV7-3 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.