Multiomics integration of 22 immune-mediated monogenic diseases reveals an emergent axis of human immune health

Sparks et al., Nature Medicine, 2024

Abstract

Monogenic diseases are often studied in isolation. Here we utilize multiomics to assess 22 monogenic immune-mediated conditions with healthy controls. We identified both disease-specific and “pan-disease” signatures and found that inter-individual variations tend to dominate over those attributable to disease conditions or medication use. Both unsupervised analysis of individual immune states and machine learning classification distinguishing age- and sex-matched healthy subjects from monogenic patients converged to a metric of immune health (IHM). In independent datasets, the IHM discriminates healthy from polygenic autoimmune and inflammatory disease states, marks healthy aging, tracks disease activities and treatment responses, and predicts age-dependent antibody responses to vaccination. Thus, deviations from health in diverse conditions and manifestations, including aging, have shared immune consequences, whereby the IHM can quantify immune health even among clinically healthy individuals beyond classic inflammatory markers such as CRP and IL-6. Our work provides tools and a framework for studying human immune health.

Subject Demographics

Number of samples

Due to privacy consideration and patient consent restrictions, only aggregated mean expression profiles and clinical measurements by condition are shown here. Conditions with only one primary subject/sample are excluded. Subject-level data can be requested through dbGaP using the study accession number phs002732 .

Microarray Gene Expressions

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Somalogic Serum Protein Levels

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CBC & TBNK Measurements

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Transcripional Module (TM) Membership

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Protein Module (PM) Membership

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Differentially expressed (FDR < 0.05) markers for each condition compared to healthy controls are listed below. Click here to download all of the markers as a .csv file.

CBC & TBNK Markers

Transcripional Module (TM) Markers

Protein Module (PM) Markers

Module Gene Markers

Module Protein Markers

IHM Components

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Transcriptomic Surrogate Signature

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Protein Surrogate Signature

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