Comprehensive pan-cancer analysis identified NSD2 as a potential prognostic and diagnostic biomarker

NSD2 is a histone lysine N-methyltransferase that plays a crucial role in complex cancer biology. Despite mounting evidence highlighting the critical role of NSD2 in tumor progression and immunity, a comprehensive pan-cancer analysis of NSD2 has yet to be performed to determine whether NSD2 can be used as a viable biomarker, for cancer screening, prognostic prediction, and for the accurate design of therapeutic regimens for a variety of human malignancies. malignancies. This study was based on TCGA, TIMER2.0, cBioPortal, TCGA plot R software package and comprehensively investigated the expression of NSD2 in 33 different tumors, clinical phenotype, survival analysis, immune infiltration, genetic alterations, correlation with TMB and MSI, enrichment analysis and prognostic significance. The results showed that NSD2 was significantly overexpressed in most tumors and significantly correlated with low OS in different tumor types. Our findings suggest its potential oncogenic and epigenetic role. Amplification was the most common type of NSD2 variant. Immune infiltration analysis revealed a strong correlation between NSD2 and different immune cells. NSD2 was significantly associated with TMB and MSI in several cancers. Furthermore, enrichment analysis revealed associations between NSD2 and cell cycle and DNA repair pathways as well as various cellular functions. These findings suggest that NSD2 may serve as a potential prognostic biomarker and target for immunotherapy of various cancers.