In a study on serum levels of IL6 at birth, 24 and 48 hr after delivery for 37neonates with perinatal asphyxia and 45 healthy neonates serum concentrations ofIL6 was reported as 43 times higher in asphyxiated neonates with HIE and 1.9times higher in asphyxiated neonates without HIE compared to the healthyneonates. The gene discussed is IL6; the disease is perinatal asphyxia.