A human pan-disease blood atlas of the circulating proteome

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Last updated:: 22 February 2026

Author(s):: María Bueno Álvez, Sofia Bergström, Josefin Kenrick, Emil Johansson, Mikael Åberg, Murat Akyildiz, Ozlem Altay, Hilda Sköld, Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Emmanouil Apostolakis, Yasin Hasan Balcioglu, Anna Bergström, Göran Bergström, Sophia Björkander, Suzanne Egyhazi Brage, Petter Brodin, Lynn Butler, Sara Cajander, Hanna Danielsson, Murat Dayangac, Gizem Dinler-Doganay, Levent Doğanay, Gunilla Enblad, Malin Enblad, Linn Fagerberg, Sara Falck-Jones, Anna Färnert, Mattias Forsberg, Laura Gonzalez, Anders Gummesson, Karin Gunnarsson, Iva Gunnarsson, Ulf Gyllensten, Göran Hesselager, Andreas Hober, Martin Höglund, Marie Holmqvist, Begum Horuluoglu, Rebecka Hultgren, Maria Jesus Iglesias, Helena Janols, Fredric Johansson, Anette Johnsson, Lars Klareskog, David Kotol, Inger Kull, Marika Kvarnström, Maximilian Julius Lautenbach, Ulrika Liljedahl, Henrik Lindman, Cecilia Lindskog, Miklos Lipcsey, Ingrid E Lundberg, Adil Mardinoglu, Erik Melén, Lingqi Meng, Anne-Sophie Merritt, Jan Mulder, Mai Thi-Huyen Nguyen, Jessica Nordlund, Anna Norrby-Teglund, Antonella Notarnicola, Piotr Nowak, Jacob Odeberg, Per Oksvold, Tomas Olsson, Leonid Padyukov, Karlis Pauksens, Fredrik Piehl, Elisa Pin, Fredrik Pontén, Natallia Rameika, Anton Reepalu, Joy Roy, Jochen M Schwenk, Meltem Sen, Antti Siika, Oscar E Simonson, Åsa Sivertsson, Tobias Sjöblom, Evelina Sjöstedt, Lovisa Skoglund, Anna Smed-Sörensen, Klara Sondén, Anders Sönnerborg, Karin Stålberg, Kristoffer Strålin, Jonas Sundén-Cullberg, Christopher Sundling, Thanadol Sutantiwanichkul, Fernanda Costa Svedman, Mattias Svensson, Elisabet Svenungsson, Tadepally Lakshmikanth, Khue Hua Tran-Minh, Hasan Türkez, Christian Unge, Per Venge, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Jakob Woessmann, Hong Yang, Umit Haluk Yeşilkaya, Meng Yuan, Mujdat Zeybel, Cheng Zhang, Wen Zhong, Martin Zwahlen, Kalle von Feilitzen, Peter Nilsson, Fredrik Edfors, Mathias Uhlén
Publish date:: 18 December 2025
Journal:: Science
PubMed ID:: 41066540
DOI:: 10.1126/science.adx2678

Abstract

The human blood proteome provides a holistic readout of health states through the assessment of thousands of circulating proteins. In this study, we present a pan-disease resource to enable the study of diverse disease phenotypes within a harmonized proteomics dataset. By profiling protein concentrations across 59 diseases and healthy cohorts, we identified proteins associated with age, sex, and body mass index, as well as disease-specific signatures. This study highlights shared and distinct protein patterns across conditions, demonstrating the power of a unified proteomics approach to uncover biological insights. The dataset, covering 8262 individuals and up to 5416 proteins, serves as an online resource for exploring disease-specific protein profiles and advancing precision medicine research.