UNKL

associated omics data
unk like zinc fingerGenealiases: C16orf28 · ZC3H5L · ZC3HDC5L

Q-omics provides the consensus-scored UNKL profile across patient tissues and cancer cell-line models. UNKL expression is associated with patient survival in 21 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in HNSC. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, UNKL is differentially expressed in 11, with the highest sampling consensus in COAD. Additionally, UNKL RNA expression shows 20,776 significant gene co-expression associations, with the highest sampling consensus in ACC. Together, these results highlight HNSC, COAD, and ACC as cancer lineages where UNKL shows reproducible signals across survival, tumor–normal expression, and patient cross-omics analyses.

Every result is evaluated using two consensus scores. Sampling consensus measures how consistently a finding is reproduced within a cancer lineage across different conditions. Lineage consensus measures how broadly the result is shared across cancer types, distinguishing pan-cancer signals from lineage-specific patterns.

Survival associations

This table summarizes UNKL survival associations across molecular data types. UNKL RNA expression shows survival associations in the most cancer types (21), followed by mutation status (4) and mass-spec protein abundance (5). The rightmost column indicates the cancer type with the highest sampling consensus for each molecular layer.
UNKL data typeSurvival analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
RNAKaplan–Meier21HNSC (103)view →
Protein (mass-spec)Kaplan–Meier5LUAD (34)view →
MutationKaplan–Meier4LUSC (24)view →
This table ranks reproducible UNKL RNA expression–survival associations across cancer types. High UNKL expression shows unfavorable associations in LIHC, KIRP and ACC, but favorable associations in HNSC, READ and UCS. The HNSC Kaplan–Meier curve shows clear separation, with the low-expression group declining faster, consistent with the favorable association (log-rank p < 0.001). Together, the overview and detailed table identify HNSC as the clearest survival context for UNKL RNA expression.
LineageMeasureSplitStageAUC1
high
AUC2
low
pSampling consensus
HNSCDFSMedianIV0.7330.546<.001103view →
LIHCDFSQuartileAll0.4170.593.00134view →
KIRPDFSMedianAll0.7990.923.00333view →
ACCDFSQuartileAll0.2660.716.00130view →
READOSTertileAll0.9500.257.00225view →
UCSDFSTertileIV0.9420.403.02424view →
Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. all 21 lineages →

UNKL-HNSC (DFS)

Kaplan–Meier survival curve for UNKL RNA expression in HNSC: high vs low expression groups.

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Tumor vs Normal expression

This table summarizes UNKL tumor–normal expression differences by data type. RNA shows broader differences across cancer types, with a lineage consensus of 11, while mass-spec protein shows differences in 4. The strongest signals are observed in HNSC for RNA and CCRCC for protein.
UNKL data typeExpression analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
RNABox plot11HNSC (10)view →
Protein (mass-spec)Box plot4CCRCC (9)view →
This table ranks reproducible tumor–normal expression differences for UNKL. A negative fold-change indicates higher expression in normal tissue than in tumor tissue. UNKL shows lower tumor expression in BRCA and higher tumor expression in COAD, HNSC, LIHC, KIRP and KIRC. The COAD box plot shows higher UNKL RNA expression in tumor versus normal tissue (log2 FC = +0.931, t-test p < 0.001).
LineageGenderStageFold-changepSampling consensus
COADFemaleAll+0.931<.00110view →
HNSCAllIII,IV+0.659<.00110view →
LIHCAllIII,IV+1.219<.0019view →
KIRPAllII,III,IV+0.660.0019view →
KIRCAllAll+0.279<.0018view →
BRCAFemaleAll−0.391<.0016view →
Green = repressed in tumor. all 11 lineages →

UNKL-COAD

Tumor-vs-normal expression box plot for UNKL in COAD.

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Cross-omics associations

This table shows molecular features associated with UNKL in patient tissues and cancer cell lines. In patient samples, UNKL shows the broadest associations at the RNA and protein expression levels, with ACC recurring as the lineage with the largest associated feature set. In cancer cell lines, UNKL RNA and mutation anchors are most strongly linked to RNA-expression features, especially in BLOOD_Myeloma, while CRISPR and shRNA rows add functional-dependency signals in PANCREAS and SOFT_TISSUE.
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
RNA
RNA20,776ACC (9542)view →
Protein (mass-spec)12,829LSCC (4038)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
Protein (mass-spec)19,537LUAD (6153)view →
RNA9,902BRCA (5056)view →
Mutation
RNA1,858UCEC (1749)view →
Protein (RPPA)14UCEC (14)view →
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
CRISPR
CRISPR1,734BLOOD_Myeloma (155)view →
RNA1,601PANCREAS (242)view →
RNA
RNA11,002SOFT_TISSUE (4326)view →
Function (RNA)3,888LARGE_INTESTINE (963)view →
Mutation
Mutation4,469LARGE_INTESTINE (2394)view →
RNA254LARGE_INTESTINE (183)view →
shRNA
shRNA2,723LUNG_NSCLC_LUAD (670)view →
RNA1,723LUNG_NSCLC_LUAD (348)view →