Japanese authors in their study concluded that the production of IL-5 is higher in asthmatics then in healthy subjects as follows: atopic asthma – 37.6 ± 7.1 pg/ml; non-atopic asthma – 25.7 ± 5.5 pg/ml and halthy subjects – 3.0 ± 0.4 pg/ml [22]. The gene discussed is IL5; the disease is atopic asthma.