GO:0043045Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~14 member genes
Q-omics provides the Epigenetic programming of gene expression (GO:0043045) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 14 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 25 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in KIRP. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, the pathway is differentially active in 13, with the highest sampling consensus in BLCA. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 36,640 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in STAD. Together, these results highlight KIRP, BLCA, and STAD as cancer lineages where the pathway shows reproducible signals across outcome, tissue activity, and molecular association 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. Pathway-against-pathway and pathway-against-mutation comparisons are not available for ontology entities.
Survival associations
This table summarizes Epigenetic programming of gene expression survival associations by molecular data type. RNA-level pathway activity shows survival associations in the most cancer types (25). The rightmost column indicates the cancer type with the highest sampling consensus for each layer.
This table ranks reproducible pathway activity–survival associations across cancer types. High Epigenetic programming of gene expression activity shows favorable associations in UCS and SCLC, but unfavorable associations in KIRP, LIHC, ACC and KICH. In the KIRP Kaplan–Meier curve the high-activity group declines faster, consistent with the unfavorable association (log-rank p < 0.001). KIRP ranks highest by sampling consensus for Epigenetic programming of gene expression.
This table summarizes Epigenetic programming of gene expression tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 13 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 4. The strongest signals are in BLCA for RNA and COAD for protein.
This table ranks reproducible tumor–normal activity differences for the pathway. A positive fold-change indicates higher activity in tumor tissue. The pathway shows consistently higher tumor activity across BLCA, LIHC, LUSC, HNSC, UCEC and LUAD. In the BLCA box plot, tumor samples show higher pathway activity than matched normal samples (log2 FC = +0.070, t-test p < 0.001).
This table shows molecular features associated with Epigenetic programming of gene expression pathway activity in patient tissues and cancer cell lines. In patient samples, pathway activity is most strongly linked to RNA and protein features, with the largest associated set in STAD. In cancer cell lines, RNA-expression features and functional dependencies dominate, with the largest set in BLOOD_Lymphoma.
