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We compared serum proteomic profiles for those who subsequently experienced Omicron breakthrough infections with those of matched controls without infections. Our study leveraged proteomics data generated from the SomaScan Platform and adopted a robust feature selection method, elastic net regularized conditional logistic regression with bootstrapping, to identify key proteins. Enrichment analyses were performed to investigate biological pathways.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We identified 28 significant proteins out of over 7,000 candidate proteins. Key findings included downregulated chemokines (CXCL2, CXCL3, CCL19, CCL23) and elevated cytokine IL-7 levels in breakthrough cases, with pathway analysis revealing enrichment in chemokine signaling and cytokine-cytokine interaction pathways. Other key proteins, such as LGALS1, HAVCR2, and SELE were upregulated in breakthrough cases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These results reveal potential immune response mechanisms in breakthrough infections, characterized by viral immune evasion and compensatory T-cell regeneration. 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