IL6, interleukin 6, 3569

N. diseases: 2367; N. variants: 22
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been associated with up-regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., specific gene variants for TNF-alpha; IL-6; IFN-gamma) and low plasma levels of cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12). 20110595 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE IL-6 in cerebellum was detectable in all AD and DS patients, but only three out of nine controls. 11258753 2001
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE IL-6 is a multifunctional inflammatory cytokine which possibly acts as a mediator in the local immune response in the brain of AD patients. 14739540 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 promoter polymorphism: risk and pathology of Alzheimer's disease. 15193763 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a cytokine shown to affect brain function and to be involved in pathological neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). 15265638 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 (IL-6), a pleiotropic inflammatory cytokine, was reported to be associated with both increased A beta aggregation and the appearance of hyperphosphorylated tau in AD brain. 20667498 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has previously been shown to participate in neurodegenerative processes including Alzheimer's disease. 8550818 1995
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease GWASCAT A potential endophenotype for Alzheimer's disease: cerebrospinal fluid clusterin. 26545630 2016
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the promoter region of the interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene at position -174 (G>C) has been reported to be associated with a variety of major diseases, such as Alzheimer disease, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease, cancer, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, sepsis, and systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis. 15364891 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A total of 170 studies were included in the meta-analysis and systematic review, which demonstrated increased peripheral levels of high-sensitivity C reactive protein (Hedges's g 0.281, p<0.05), interleukin-6 (IL-6) (0.429, p<0.005), soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor 1 (sTNFR1) (0.763, p<0.05), soluble tumour necrosis factor receptor 2 (sTNFR2) (0.354, p<0.005), alpha1-antichymotrypsin (α1-ACT) (1.217, p<0.005), IL-1β (0.615, p<0.05) and soluble CD40 ligand (0.868, p<0.005), and CSF levels of IL-10 (0.434, p<0.05), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) (0.798, p<0.005), transforming growth factor-beta 1 (1.009, p<0.05), soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells2 (sTREM2) (0.587, p<0.001), YKL-40 (0.849, p<0.001), α1-ACT (0.638, p<0.001), nerve growth factor (5.475, p<0.005) and visinin-like protein-1 (VILIP-1) (0.677, p<0.005), in AD compared with the control. 30630955 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Additionally cytokines, such as interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha), interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are co-localized to senile plaques, a neuropathological hallmark of AD. 12399113 2002
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE After adjusting for a large set of confounders, including the use of anti-inflammatory drugs, only higher LBP levels were significantly associated with a 30% higher odds of developing AD over 12 years (OR 1.30, 95% CIs [1.07-1.59]), regardless of IL6 levels. 31450497 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE After nine months of treatment in APP/PS1 double-transgenic mice, scutellarin significantly improves behavior, reduces soluble and insoluble Aβ levels in the brain and plasma, decreases Aβ plaque associated gliosis and levels of proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6, attenuates neuroinflammation, displays anti-amyloidogenic effects, and highlights the beneficial effects of intervention on development or progression of AD-like neuropathology. 29642616 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Also, correlation results of IL1 and IL6 suggest stronger inflammatory effects in LOBD than in AD. 28670271 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alterations in extracellular matrix proteins in addition to increasing amount of hippocampal IL6 and iron in the early stages of AD may reveal inflammation-mediated iron dyshomeostasis in the early stages of neurodegeneration. 29376847 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Are there interactions of other genes with IL6 that affect the development and progression of AD? 11754993 2002
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Because IL-6 has been implicated in the etiopathology of different human diseases including multiple myeloma, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome dementia complex, and Alzheimer's disease, its inhibition may be of therapeutic interest. 9523575 1998
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Blood levels of CRP and IL-6 are also associated with higher risk of Alzheimer disease and cognitive decline during aging. 17430245 2007
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE By virological and molecular analyses we found: i) HSV-1 spreading and replication in different brain regions after thermal stress-induced virus reactivations; ii) accumulation of AD hallmarks including amyloid-β protein, tau hyperphosphorylation, and neuroinflammation markers (astrogliosis, IL-1β and IL-6). 30870531 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE C-reactive protein (HR = 1.37 [1.05; 1.78]), interleukin-6 (HR = 1.40 [1.13; 1.73]), α1-antichymotrypsin (HR = 1.54 [1.14; 2.80]), lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 activity (HR = 1.40 [1.03; 1.90]), and fibrinogen were each associated with all-cause dementia, but neither was significantly associated with AD. 29605221 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease LHGDN Current research was directed at assessing beta amyloid, cytokines (IL-6, IL-10 and TNF alpha) plasma levels in women with AD. 18283248 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) is thought to play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. 20197062 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Elderly with depression have higher IL-6 than controls, while those with Alzheimer's disease did not have higher peripheral inflammatory markers. 30104698 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Elevated levels of cytokines have been detected in brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and altered peripheral levels of IL-1beta, TNFalpha and IL-6 have been reported in these patients. 14975597 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE ELISPOT assays were used to measure pro-inflammatory cytokine (TNF-alpha; IL-6; IL-1beta; IFN-gamma) production in peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) supernatant from AD patients. 23463934 2013