Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, UBTFL9 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of UBTFL9’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma (KIRP), where UBTFL9 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types UBTFL9 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KIRP and KICH show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KIRP, KICH, and BRCA are the cancer types where UBTFL9 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.