GO:0050915Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~9 member genes
Q-omics provides the Sensory perception of sour taste (GO:0050915) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 9 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 24 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in KIRC. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, the pathway is differentially active in 16, with the highest sampling consensus in KIRC. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 29,653 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in LGG. Together, these results highlight KIRC, and LGG 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 Sensory perception of sour taste 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 Sensory perception of sour taste activity shows favorable associations in HNSC and LGG, but unfavorable associations in KIRC, SKCM, ACC and KIRP. In the KIRC Kaplan–Meier curve the high-activity group declines faster, consistent with the unfavorable association (log-rank p < 0.001). KIRC ranks highest by sampling consensus for Sensory perception of sour taste.
This table summarizes Sensory perception of sour taste tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 16 cancer types. The strongest signals are in KIRC for RNA.
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 KIRC, HNSC, KIRP, COAD, KICH and LUAD. In the KIRC box plot, normal samples show higher pathway activity than tumor samples (log2 FC = −0.462, t-test p < 0.001).
This table shows molecular features associated with Sensory perception of sour taste 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 LGG. In cancer cell lines, RNA-expression features and functional dependencies dominate, with the largest set in BLOOD_Lymphoma.
