Similarly, the concentrations of serum IL-10 were correlated positively with the levels of serum HCV RNA (R = 0.5639, p = 0.001), ALT (R = 0.4584, p = 0.0079) and AST (R = 0.5198, p = 0.0027) in the CHC patients. The gene discussed is IL10; the disease is cryohydrocytosis.