VCAN

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, VCAN mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 6 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of VCAN’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where VCAN mass-spec protein is more highly expressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types VCAN is over-expressed in tumor.

COAD, CCRCC, and LUAD are the cancer types where VCAN tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.

mass-spec protein tumor vs normal associations by lineage

Ranked by sampling consensus. Fold-change is the tumor-versus-normal difference in VCAN mass-spec protein (log₂); positive values indicate higher expression in tumor. p-values are from the differential-expression test.

Lineage	Gender	Stage	Fold-change	p	Sampling consensus
COAD	Female	III,IV	+0.872	<.001	11	view →
CCRCC	All	All	+0.977	<.001	10	view →
LUAD	Male	III,IV	+1.072	<.001	8	view →
LSCC	Male	All	+0.995	<.001	8	view →
HNSC	All	All	+0.446	.001	8	view →
PDAC	Male	All	+1.300	<.001	6	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 6 strongest of 6 lineages.

VCAN–COAD

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