Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ZNF438 mass-spec protein differs between tumor and matched normal tissue in 2 of 18 cancer types tested, making tumor–normal expression one of ZNF438’s most consistent transcriptional readouts.

The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where ZNF438 mass-spec protein is repressed in tumor relative to normal tissue. In most cancer types ZNF438 is over-expressed in tumor, although a few such as PDAC show the opposite, repressed pattern.

PDAC and HNSC are the cancer types where ZNF438 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 ZNF438 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
PDAC	All	All	−0.342	.007	6	view →
HNSC	All	All	+0.289	.017	3	view →

Pink = over-expressed in tumor, green = repressed in tumor. Showing the 2 strongest of 2 lineages.

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