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Table 2 Significant pathways associated with lifetime ovulatory years with adjusted p-value < 1.0 × 10–5 in type II ovarian cancer tumor tissue in NHS, NHSII, and NEC (n = 234)

From: Lifetime ovulatory years and ovarian cancer gene expression profiles

Pathway names

Database

Number of genes

NES

Unadjusted

p-value

FDR

INTERFERON GAMMA RESPONSE

Hallmarks of cancer

184

-2.67

7.60 × 10–21

3.80 × 10–19

E2F TARGETS

Hallmarks of cancer

196

-2.62

5.62 × 10–20

1.41 × 10–18

G2M CHECKPOINT

Hallmarks of cancer

192

-2.48

1.35 × 10–16

2.25 × 10–15

INTERFERON ALPHA RESPONSE

Hallmarks of cancer

92

-2.52

1.54 × 10–12

1.93 × 10–11

CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS

REACTOME

253

-2.27

8.90 × 10–14

3.78 × 10–11

CELL CYCLE MITOTIC

REACTOME

477

-1.97

6.79 × 10–14

3.78 × 10–11

INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE

Hallmarks of cancer

153

-2.27

3.99 × 10–11

3.99 × 10–10

TNFA SIGNALING VIA NFKB

Hallmarks of cancer

176

-2.17

1.33 × 10–10

1.11 × 10–9

ALLOGRAFT REJECTION

Hallmarks of cancer

142

-2.17

9.30 × 10–10

6.64 × 10–9

DNA REPLICATION

REACTOME

124

-2.36

6.56 × 10–11

1.86 × 10–8

SEPARATION OF SISTER CHROMATIDS

REACTOME

176

-2.09

9.53 × 10–10

2.02 × 10–7

MITOTIC METAPHASE AND ANAPHASE

REACTOME

221

-2.04

2.87 × 10–9

4.06 × 10–7

S PHASE

REACTOME

157

-2.13

2.41 × 10–9

4.06 × 10–7

OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION

KEGG

112

-2.18

6.59 × 10–9

1.05 × 10–6

G2 M CHECKPOINTS

REACTOME

131

-2.18

1.38 × 10–8

1.67 × 10–6

M PHASE

REACTOME

338

-1.83

1.83 × 10–8

1.94 × 10–6

HYPOXIA

Hallmarks of cancer

168

-1.85

8.98 × 10–7

5.62 × 10–6

THE CITRIC ACID TCA CYCLE AND RESPIRATORY ELECTRON TRANSPORT

REACTOME

161

-2.01

9.21 × 10–08

8.69 × 10–06

  1. Type II ovarian cancer tumors include high-grade serous, poorly-differentiated, and high-grade endometrioid tumors
  2. Abbreviations: FDR False Discovery Rate, NHS Nurses’ Health Study, NHSII Nurses’ Health Study II, NEC New England Case–Control Study, NES Normalized enrichment score