With regard to cytokines, researchers have shown that the plasma concentrations of Th-17-associated cytokines, IL-6, IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-22, and IL-23 are significantly higher in patients with ITP achieving CR by corticosteroid treatment than in HCs; however, these cytokines exhibited no significant difference between ITP patients with and without CR after corticosteroid treatment, and the authors concluded that the levels of these cytokines were not correlated with corticosteroid reactivity [20], a finding that agrees with ours. The gene discussed is IL17A; the disease is autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura.