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ReviewAnnual review of immunology2025

Systems Human Immunology and AI: Immune Setpoint and Immune Health.

Yona Lei, John S Tsang

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Review in Annual review of immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yona LeiYale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology and Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; email: john.tsang@yale.edu.
John S TsangYale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology and Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; email: john.tsang@yale.edu.

Funding

Transferred ImmunityU19AI145825 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI PASETTI, MARCELA F · 2021 to 2025
$16.0M
Drivers of individual variation in influenza vaccine response and protection from infectionR01AI170116 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Sarah Cobey, John S Tsang · 2022 to 2026
$7.2M
The "Dynamics of the immune responses to repeat influenza vaccination exposures" (DRIVE) StudyU01AI153700 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI COBEY, SARAH, COWLING, BENJAMIN JOHN · 2020 to 2024
$6.2M
Baseline host and environmental factors that impact pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine (hypo)responsiveness in endemic regionsU01AI165745 · NIAID · LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Maria Yazdanbakhsh · 2022 to 2026
$3.3M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI170116NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI153700NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI165745NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI145825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system, critical for human health and implicated in many diseases, defends against pathogens, monitors physiological stress, and maintains tissue and organismal homeostasis. It exhibits substantial variability both within and across individuals and populations. Recent technological and conceptual progress in systems human immunology has provided predictive insights that link personal immune states to intervention responses and disease susceptibilities. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly machine learning (ML), has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing complex immune data sets, revealing hidden patterns across biological scales, and enabling predictive models for individualistic immune responses and potentially personalized interventions. This review highlights recent advances in deciphering human immune variation and predicting outcomes, particularly through the concepts of immune setpoint, immune health, and use of the immune system as a window for measuring health. We also provide a brief history of AI; review ML modeling approaches, including their applications in systems human immunology; and explore the potential of AI to develop predictive models and personal immune state embeddings to detect early signs of disease, forecast responses to interventions, and guide personalized health strategies.

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Artificial IntelligenceImmune SystemSystems BiologyAnimalsDisease SusceptibilityHumansImmunityMachine LearningPrecision MedicineAIartificial intelligencehuman immunologyimmune healthimmune setpointimmune variationmachine learningsystems immunology

Identifiers

PMID40279304
PMCPMC13380186

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