GO:0050872Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~17 member genes
Q-omics provides the White fat cell differentiation (GO:0050872) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 17 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 24 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in BRCA. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, the pathway is differentially active in 15, with the highest sampling consensus in THCA. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 35,682 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in STAD. Together, these results highlight BRCA, THCA, 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 White fat cell differentiation survival associations by molecular data type. RNA-level pathway activity shows survival associations in the most cancer types (24). 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 White fat cell differentiation activity shows favorable associations in BRCA, HNSC, PAAD and MESO, but unfavorable associations in KIRP and ESCA. In the BRCA Kaplan–Meier curve the low-activity group declines faster, consistent with the favorable association (log-rank p < 0.001). BRCA ranks highest by sampling consensus for White fat cell differentiation.
This table summarizes White fat cell differentiation tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 15 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 2. The strongest signals are in THCA for RNA and PDAC 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 lower tumor activity across THCA, COAD, LUAD, KICH, BLCA and LUSC. In the THCA box plot, normal samples show higher pathway activity than tumor samples (log2 FC = −0.108, t-test p < 0.001).
This table shows molecular features associated with White fat cell differentiation 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 PANCREAS.
