[Many studies have reported that interleukin-8 (IL-8), a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine, is associated with many autoimmune diseases and could increase the degree of lymphocyte infiltration within the thyroid gland.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE