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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Advances and challenges in neoantigen prediction for cancer immunotherapy.

Yi Zhang, Ting-Ting Chen, Xiong Li, Ai-Lin Lan, Peng-Fei Ji, Ya-Juan Zhu, Xue-Yao Ma

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines for pancreatic cancer: the role of lipid nanoparticle delivery systems.Daru : journal of Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Yi Zhang *The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Ting-Ting Chen *Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Xiong Li *Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Ai-Lin Lan *The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Peng-Fei JiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Ya-Juan ZhuDepartment of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Xue-Yao MaDepartment of Gynecology, The Second Hospital & Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neoantigens, derived from tumor-specific mutations, are promising targets of cancer immunotherapy by eliciting tumor-specific T-cell responses while sparing normal cells. Accurate neoantigen prediction relies on immunogenomics and immunopeptidomics. Immunogenomics identifies tumor-specific mutations via next-generation sequencing. Immunopeptidomics detects MHC-presented peptides using mass spectrometry. Integrating these two methods enhances prediction accuracy but faces challenges due to tumor heterogeneity, HLA diversity, and immune evasion. Future advancements will focus on dynamic tumor microenvironment monitoring, multi-omics integration, improved computational models and algorithms to refine neoantigen prediction, and developing optimized personalized vaccines.

Indexed as

Antigens, NeoplasmImmunotherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsCancer VaccinesHumansMutationTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccinesbioinformaticscancer immunotherapyimmune evasionimmunopeptidomicsneoantigen predictionnext-generation sequencing

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PMID40574862
PMCPMC12198247

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