Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TRBV7-7 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of TRBV7-7’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), where TRBV7-7 RNA is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types TRBV7-7 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as LUAD and KICH show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRC, BRCA, and STAD are the cancer types where TRBV7-7 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.