Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, UPP2-IT1 RNA differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 5 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of UPP2-IT1’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney chromophobe (KICH), where UPP2-IT1 RNA is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types UPP2-IT1 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as KICH and KIRC show the opposite, repressed pattern.
KICH, THCA, and KIRC are the cancer types where UPP2-IT1 tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.