Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, WARS2 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated WARS2 data layer compared with 21 for mass-spec protein and 5 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where higher WARS2 mass-spec protein is associated with better disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated WARS2 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as COAD and PDAC show a favorable association.
COAD, PDAC, and LSCC are the cancer types where WARS2 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.