Growing amount of evidence indicate that IFN-ɣ inducible chemokines (CXCL9, CXCL10 and CXCL11) and CXCR3 (their main receptor) [45, 46] play an important role in the initial stage of autoimmune thyroiditis [47, 48]. Here, CXCL10 is linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.