IL10 and diabetes mellitus: The polymorphic sites within the promoter region of IL-10 include several SNPs [rs1800896 (−1082 A/G), rs1800871 (−819 T/C), and rs1800872 (−592 A/C)], which have been described in relation to diabetes, and two microsatellite loci in the 4 kb immediately upstream of the human IL-10 transcription initiation site (Turner et al., 1997; Eskdale et al., 1998).