Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ZBTB7A mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 3 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ZBTB7A’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.
The strongest signal is observed in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), where ZBTB7A mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ZBTB7A is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as COAD show the opposite, repressed pattern.
COAD, LSCC, and PDAC are the cancer types where ZBTB7A tumor–normal differential expression is most reproducible.