Table 1.

The list of 13 identified survival significant sub-pathway/pathways and function summary.

Pathway identifier	Function summary
04071\04012	Sphingolipid signaling pathway\ErbB signaling pathway
00240\00230	Pyrimidine metabolism\Purine metabolism
04218\04110	Cellular senescence\Cell cycle
05167\01521	Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection\EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance
05132 ∩ 05231	Salmonella infection ∩ Choline metabolism in cancer
00520	Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism
04022 ∩ 04210	cGMP-PKG signaling pathway ∩ Apoptosis
00480	Glutathione metabolism
00030	Pentose phosphate pathway
04620\05130	Toll-like receptor signaling pathway\Pathogenic Escherichia coli infection
04540	Gap junction
05212\05206	Pancreatic cancer\MicroRNAs in cancer
04066\05211	HIF-1 signaling pathway\Renal cell carcinoma

i\j represents the set of genes that are in KEGG pathway i but not in KEGG pathway j.

i∩j represents the set of genes that are in both KEGG pathway i and pathway j.