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 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE No association was found between any IL-6 polymorphism and AD; however the haplotype composed of the -597 A allele and the -174G allele indicated a crude odds ratio (OR) of 0.15 (p = 0.0021) and a significantly adjusted OR (adjusted for the APOE E4 allele value) of 0.15 (p = 0.00294). 23666170 2013
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 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 Biomarker disease BEFREE In AD dementia, MDSC populations are reduced with decreased suppression of monocyte IL-6 (5.22%) and T cell proliferation (37.61%); the reduced suppression coincides with increased pro-inflammatory signaling in AD dementia monocytes. 30424785 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The capacity for sIL-6R to enhance IL-6 function and broaden the IL-6 target cell population in the brain has implications for the regulation of beta-APP expression in disease states such as Alzheimer's disease where elevations in brain IL-6 levels have been reported. 9645958 1998
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our data indicate that the IL-6 gene polymorphism is associated with AD in Italians and confirm that IL-6 is crucial in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative disorders. 12352619 2002
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These data do not support the hypothesis that the IL-1-beta-511 and IL-6-174 polymorphisms affect dementia or AD risk. 16297587 2006
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Interactions have been reported between the low-activity -1021T allele (rs1611115) of DBH and polymorphisms of the pro-inflammatory cytokine genes, IL1A and IL6, contributing to the risk of AD. 21070631 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The mechanisms leading to increased IL-6 levels in brains of AD patients are still unknown. 8627294 1996
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The C5a complement activation peptide increases IL-1beta and IL-6 release from amyloid-beta primed human monocytes: implications for Alzheimer's disease. 10996210 2000
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In the present study, we investigated the possible association of (1) a naturally occurring variable number tandem repeat (vntr) polymorphism (C allele) in the 3' flanking region of the interleukin-6 gene (IL-6), previously demonstrated to modify the course of Alzheimer's disease, systemic lupus erythematodes and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), (2) a tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism (TAAA)(n) in the 3' flanking region of the MOG gene and (3) HLA class II alleles with adult clinical phenotypes and serum antibody responses to MOG in 70 adult X-ALD patients. 12576235 2003
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results suggest a possible link between the release of PGs from activated microglia and the astrocytic synthesis of IL-6, which itself may affect neuronal cells, as hypothesized for Alzheimer's disease. 9850935 1998
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 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our study suggests that a common coding region variant of the IL-6 receptor results in neuroinflammatory changes that may influence the age of onset of Alzheimer's disease in APOE ɛ4 carriers. 28106546 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We could not demonstrate altered CSF concentrations of IL-6 that may indicate an inflammatory response or capability to support neuronal survival in the central nervous system (CNS) of first-degree relatives and patients with AD. 9218628 1997
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In vivo, prevention of contact system activation beside the reduction of kallikrein generation, can also decrease the activation of complement system and the release of interleukin-6, both factors being considered to play an important role in the inflammatory reactions in AD brain. 11589915 2001
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 Our results show a 13-fold up-regulation of GMF and 8-12-fold up-regulation of proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-1β, interferon gamma (IFN-γ), and chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2) and C-X-C motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10/IP-10) mRNA as determined by quantitative real-time RT-PCR in the brain of 3xTg-AD mice as compared to non-transgenic (Non-Tg) mice. 23086473 2013
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, prevalent AD cases had higher levels of IL6 (measured on average 5.5 years after dementia onset) than age- and gender-matched controls, OR 2.24 (95% CI 1.27-3.95), p-value 0.006. 21116047 2011
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 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 The gene encoding for interleukin-6 (IL-6) is interesting since IL-6 has been reported not only to be involved in immune functions but also in AD. 16540406 2006
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aims of this study were to investigate the influence of APOE genotypes on TNF-alpha, IL-6, and IL-1beta secreted by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from human patients with AD and to analyze the correlation between cytokine production and AD clinical features. 19618379 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this case-control study, we examined C677T and A1298C (rs1801133 and rs1801131) polymorphism in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) genes and their correlation with plasma levels of homocysteine (Hcy) in AD and VaD cases and evaluated the gene-gene interaction (epistasis) with IL-6-174 G/C (rs1800795). 22015309 2012
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The aim of our study was to assay circulating interleukin-15 (IL-15) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels and insulin resistance measured by two different methods in newly diagnosed autoimmune diabetes (AD) patients, their I° relatives, and healthy controls. 31772933 2019