[IL-18 is a proinflammatory cytokine that is important for host defense, but is also involved in the pathogenesis of a number of disease processes, ranging from autoimmune disorders to atherosclerosis.]. 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