. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Although the association results need to be replicated by other studies, IL-18 variants are significantly associated with asthma severity, and the rs5744247 variant reflects higher transcriptional activity and higher expression of IL-18 in LPS-stimulated monocytes and a higher serum IL-18 level.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2013-07-06"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:32:26+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .