Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway

associated omics data
GO:2001238Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~52 member genes

Q-omics provides the Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway (GO:2001238) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 52 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 7, with the highest sampling consensus in KICH. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 36,459 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in STAD. Together, these results highlight SKCM, KICH, 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 extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway 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 (74)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Kaplan–Meier4LSCC (15)view →
This table ranks reproducible pathway activity–survival associations across cancer types. High Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway activity shows favorable associations in SKCM, HNSC and BRCA, but unfavorable associations in KIRP, LGG and LUSC. 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 extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway.
LineageMeasureSplitStageAUC1
high
AUC2
low
pSampling consensus
SKCMOSMedianAll0.8380.724<.00174view →
HNSCDFSTertileII,III,IV0.3900.239.00258view →
KIRPOSTertileII,III,IV0.1470.850<.00155view →
LGGDFSMedianAll0.2770.497<.00153view →
LUSCDFSTertileII,III,IV0.5020.686.00533view →
BRCAOSTertileIII,IV0.9690.861.00527view →
Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. all 24 lineages →

Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway-SKCM (OS)

Kaplan–Meier survival curve for Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway pathway activity in SKCM: high vs low activity groups.

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Tumor vs Normal activity

This table summarizes Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 7 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 7. The strongest signals are in CCRCC for RNA and CCRCC for protein.
Data typeActivity analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Box plot7CCRCC (11)view →
GO function (RNA)Box plot7KICH (10)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 higher tumor activity across KIRC and lower tumor activity in KICH, LUSC, UCEC, PRAD and THCA. In the KICH box plot, normal samples show higher pathway activity than tumor samples (log2 FC = −0.082, t-test p < 0.001).
LineageGenderStageFold-changepSampling consensus
KICHAllIV−0.082<.00110view →
LUSCFemaleAll−0.052<.0016view →
KIRCMaleAll+0.025<.0015view →
UCECAllAll−0.034.0052view →
PRADAllAll−0.027<.0012view →
THCAFemaleAll−0.019.0381view →
Pink = higher activity in tumor. all 7 lineages →

Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway-KICH

Tumor-vs-normal pathway-activity box plot for Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway in KICH.

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Cross-omics associations

This table shows molecular features associated with Positive regulation of extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway 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 SKIN.
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
RNA
RNA36,459STAD (22743)view →
Protein (mass-spec)18,296GBM (8956)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
Protein (mass-spec)19,414LSCC (5463)view →
RNA8,255GBM (4056)view →
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
CRISPR
RNA1,982SKIN (424)view →
CRISPR1,881SKIN (247)view →
RNA
RNA8,441BLOOD_Lymphoma (2237)view →
CRISPR2,104SKIN (208)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
RNA2,560LIVER (670)view →
Protein (mass-spec)1,162SKIN (246)view →
shRNA
shRNA920UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACT (118)view →
CRISPR908BREAST (132)view →