Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus

associated omics data
GO:0060760Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~65 member genes

Q-omics provides the Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus (GO:0060760) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 65 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 24 of 34 cancer types, with the highest sampling consensus in SKCM. Among the 18 cancer types available for tumor–normal comparison, the pathway is differentially active in 14, with the highest sampling consensus in KIRC. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 36,438 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in STAD. Together, these results highlight SKCM, KIRC, 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 Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus 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.
Data typeSurvival analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (RNA)Kaplan–Meier24SKCM (64)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Kaplan–Meier6PDAC (21)view →
This table ranks reproducible pathway activity–survival associations across cancer types. High Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus activity shows favorable associations in SKCM, HNSC and ACC, but unfavorable associations in LGG, KIRC and UVM. In the SKCM Kaplan–Meier curve the low-activity group declines faster, consistent with the favorable association (log-rank p < 0.001). SKCM ranks highest by sampling consensus for Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus.
LineageMeasureSplitStageAUC1
high
AUC2
low
pSampling consensus
SKCMOSQuartileAll0.4980.286<.00164view →
LGGOSMedianAll0.3500.526<.00149view →
HNSCDFSTertileIV0.6800.469.00349view →
KIRCDFSTertileAll0.7390.837.00348view →
UVMDFSMedianII,III,IV0.3840.736<.00136view →
ACCDFSTertileAll0.8780.373.00229view →
Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. all 24 lineages →

Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus-SKCM (OS)

Kaplan–Meier survival curve for Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus pathway activity in SKCM: high vs low activity groups.

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Tumor vs Normal activity

This table summarizes Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 14 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 6. The strongest signals are in KIRC for RNA and COAD for protein.
Data typeActivity analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (RNA)Box plot14KIRC (11)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Box plot6COAD (11)view →
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 KIRC, HNSC, BLCA, THCA, STAD and COAD. In the KIRC box plot, tumor samples show higher pathway activity than matched normal samples (log2 FC = +0.055, t-test p < 0.001).
LineageGenderStageFold-changepSampling consensus
KIRCMaleIV+0.055<.00111view →
HNSCFemaleIII,IV+0.051<.00111view →
BLCAAllAll+0.044.00110view →
THCAMaleAll+0.042<.0019view →
STADAllAll+0.064<.0018view →
COADAllII,III,IV+0.026<.0017view →
Pink = higher activity in tumor. all 14 lineages →

Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus-KIRC

Tumor-vs-normal pathway-activity box plot for Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus in KIRC.

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Cross-omics associations

This table shows molecular features associated with Positive regulation of response to cytokine stimulus 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 LUNG_NSCLC_LUAD.
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
RNA
RNA36,438STAD (20773)view →
Protein (mass-spec)19,767LSCC (9233)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
Protein (mass-spec)21,419GBM (5586)view →
RNA8,319GBM (2303)view →
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
CRISPR
CRISPR1,815LUNG_NSCLC_LUAD (161)view →
RNA1,513PANCREAS (353)view →
RNA
RNA7,533CNS (2144)view →
CRISPR2,243OVARY (193)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
RNA2,604BLOOD_Leukemia (1090)view →
CRISPR1,575SKIN (134)view →
shRNA
shRNA1,096KIDNEY (128)view →
CRISPR963BLOOD_Myeloma (121)view →