Multi-omics landscapes reveal heterogeneity in long COVID patients characterized with enhanced neutrophil activity.
Ke LinJianpeng CaiJingxin GuoHaocheng ZhangGangqiang SunXun WangKun ZhuQuanlin XueFeng ZhuPengfei WangGuanmin YuanYuhan SunSen WangJingwen AiWenhong ZhangPublished in: Journal of translational medicine (2024)
The transcriptomic and proteomic profiling revealed heterogeneity among long COVID patients. We discovered a subgroup of long COVID population characterized by neutrophil activation, which might associate with the development of psychiatric symptoms and indicate a higher inflammatory state. Meanwhile, a cluster of 5 genes was manually curated as the most potent discriminators of NU-LC from long COVID population. This study can serve as a foundational exploration of the heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of long COVID and assist in therapeutic targeting and detailed epidemiological investigation of long COVID.