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: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Abnormal expression of the IL-6 gene has been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of a variety of diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis, Castleman's disease, mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, multiple myeloma and Kaposi's sarcoma. 1643291 1992
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Pretreatment of KS cells with poly (I:C) for 24 h followed by removal of the poly (I:C) led to high levels of IL-6 secreted into medium that induced proliferation in KS cells. 8283061 1994
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Four virus proteins similar to two human macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP) chemokines, interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interferon regulatory factor (IRF) are encoded by the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) genome. vIL-6 was functional in B9 proliferation assays and primarily expressed in KSHV-infected hematopoietic cells rather than KS lesions. 8939871 1996
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Angiogenesis and hematopoiesis induced by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-encoded interleukin-6. 10361100 1999
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A rhesus macaque rhadinovirus related to Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8 encodes a functional homologue of interleukin-6. 10364379 1999
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE By immunostaining, mesothelioma cells expressed interleukin-6 and platelet-derived growth factor, which are important for survival of Kaposi's sarcoma cells. 10628804 1999
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Cellular tropism and viral interleukin-6 expression distinguish human herpesvirus 8 involvement in Kaposi's sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma, and multicentric Castleman's disease. 10196314 1999
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Elevated levels of circulating interleukin-6, a cytokine that plays a central role in KS, were found in RFHVMm-viraemic animals. 10073709 1999
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The genome of human herpes virus 8, which is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, encodes proteins with similarities to cytokines and chemokines including a homologue of IL-6. 10779772 2000
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results show that IL6 promoter genotypes associated with altered gene expression are risk factors for development of KS. 11001912 2000
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE J Virol 1997;71:4187-4192; Nicholas J, Ruvolo VR, Burns WH, Sandford G, Wan X, Ciufo D, Hendrickson SB, Guo HG, Hayward GS, Reitz MS. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated human herpesvirus-8 encodes homologues of macrophage inflammatory protein-1 and interleukin-6. 10738139 2000
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE While vCYC (AKS 6 of 6; CKS 3 of 3), vMIP-I (AKS 5 of 6, CKS 3 of 3), vBCL2 (AKS 6 of 6; CKS 3 of 3), and vIRF1 (AKS 5 of 6, CKS 3 of 3) transcripts were detected in both AKS and CKS, vGCR and HIV-1 Tat were expressed only in AKS samples (vGCR: AKS 3 of 6, CKS 0 of 3; Tat: AKS 4 of 6, CKS 0 of 3). vMIPII, vCBP, and vIL6 expression were not detected in any KS samples. 10662620 2000
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our novel finding of the huIL-6 induction by vIL-6 indicates that vIL-6 may play a significant role in the pathogenesis of HHV-8 associated diseases. 10861641 2000
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The detection of vIL-6--positive lymphoid cells in bone marrow suggests a homing for HHV-8--infected elements in this tissue. 11274637 2001
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Colocalization of the viral interleukin-6 with latent nuclear antigen-1 of human herpesvirus-8 in endothelial spindle cells of Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphoid cells of multicentric Castleman's disease. 11172301 2001
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Preincubation with recombinant human IL-6 or OSM sensitized KS in a dose dependent manner. 11380243 2001
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Detection of viral interleukin-6 in Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-linked disorders. 11264189 2001
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease LHGDN Rta of the human herpesvirus 8/Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus up-regulates human interleukin-6 gene expression. 12176919 2002
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Several groups have reported that vIL-6 is expressed from the HHV-8 genome at higher levels in PEL and MCD lesions than in KS lesions. 12134031 2002
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Rta of the human herpesvirus 8/Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus up-regulates human interleukin-6 gene expression. 12176919 2002
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE IL-4, a cytokine with pleiotropic effects, suppresses IL-6 in vivo and modestly inhibits AIDS-KS-derived cells in vitro. 12513914 2002
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus encoded vFLIP induces cellular IL-6 expression: the role of the NF-kappaB and JNK/AP1 pathways. 12776188 2003
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Molecular mechanisms for viral mimicry of a human cytokine: activation of gp130 by HHV-8 interleukin-6. 14672670 2004
CUI: C0036220
Disease: Kaposi Sarcoma
Kaposi Sarcoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In addition to the HHV-8 infection, the interleukin-6 promoter polymorphism G-174C is associated with a risk of development of KS in renal transplant recipients. 15154666 2004