GSEA revealed positive correlations between the high expression of hypoxia-related genes and the activation of several signaling pathways, including the cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway (NES = 2.24), pathways in cancer (NES = 1.55), protein acetylation (NES = 2.21) and mTOR signaling pathways (NES = 1.68). Here, MTOR is linked to cancer.