Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process

associated omics data
GO:2001280Ontology (GO BP)GO biological process · ~9 member genes

Q-omics provides the Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:2001280) pathway profile, scoring each patient from the combined activity of its roughly 9 member genes. Pathway activity is associated with patient survival in 28 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 10, with the highest sampling consensus in KIRP. Additionally, pathway RNA activity shows 32,243 significant cross-omics associations, again with the highest sampling consensus in BRCA. Together, these results highlight BRCA, and KIRP 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 unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process survival associations by molecular data type. RNA-level pathway activity shows survival associations in the most cancer types (28). 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–Meier28BRCA (93)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Kaplan–Meier4GBM (16)view →
This table ranks reproducible pathway activity–survival associations across cancer types. High Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process activity shows favorable associations in UVM, but unfavorable associations in BRCA, KIRC, GBM, LGG and LUAD. In the BRCA Kaplan–Meier curve the high-activity group declines faster, consistent with the unfavorable association (log-rank p = .001). BRCA ranks highest by sampling consensus for Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process.
LineageMeasureSplitStageAUC1
high
AUC2
low
pSampling consensus
BRCADFSTertileIII,IV0.8040.933.00193view →
UVMDFSTertileIII,IV0.8560.238.00456view →
KIRCDFSMedianIV0.2430.640.00251view →
GBMDFSQuartileAll0.1480.559<.00130view →
LGGOSQuartileAll0.7260.881<.00128view →
LUADDFSMedianAll0.7080.819.00225view →
Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. all 28 lineages →

Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process-BRCA (DFS)

Kaplan–Meier survival curve for Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process pathway activity in BRCA: high vs low activity groups.

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Tumor vs Normal activity

This table summarizes Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process tumor–normal activity differences by data type. RNA-level activity shows significant tumor–normal differences in 10 cancer types, while mass-spec protein activity shows differences in 5. The strongest signals are in KIRP for RNA and CCRCC for protein.
Data typeActivity analysisLineage consensusLineage of highest sampling consensus
GO function (RNA)Box plot10KIRP (11)view →
GO function (Protein (mass-spec))Box plot5CCRCC (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 higher tumor activity across KIRP, HNSC, THCA, KIRC and PAAD and lower tumor activity in BRCA. In the KIRP box plot, tumor samples show higher pathway activity than matched normal samples (log2 FC = +0.124, t-test p < 0.001).
LineageGenderStageFold-changepSampling consensus
KIRPMaleAll+0.124<.00111view →
BRCAAllIII,IV−0.091<.0016view →
HNSCMaleAll+0.070<.0016view →
THCAMaleII,III,IV+0.076.0015view →
KIRCMaleAll+0.052<.0015view →
PAADFemaleAll+0.130.0144view →
Pink = higher activity in tumor. all 10 lineages →

Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process-KIRP

Tumor-vs-normal pathway-activity box plot for Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process in KIRP.

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Cross-omics associations

This table shows molecular features associated with Positive regulation of unsaturated fatty acid biosynthetic process 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 BRCA. 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
RNA32,243BRCA (12532)view →
Protein (mass-spec)15,567GBM (5526)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
Protein (mass-spec)20,159GBM (6905)view →
RNA9,135GBM (4662)view →
Associated data typeStrength (# associated data)Lineage of highest associated data
CRISPR
CRISPR1,907LUNG_NSCLC_LUAD (162)view →
RNA1,533LUNG_NSCLC_LUAD (181)view →
RNA
RNA2,888BLOOD_Lymphoma (955)view →
CRISPR855BLOOD_Lymphoma (146)view →
shRNA
RNA1,573BREAST (566)view →
shRNA1,450BREAST (228)view →
Protein (mass-spec)
RNA655URINARY_TRACT (168)view →
CRISPR539UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACT (145)view →