The detection of IL-6 in patients with acute cerebral infarction found that IL-6 in the cerebrospinal fluid and serum is an independent predictor of cerebral infarction: the greater the volume of cerebral infarction, the higher the level of IL-6, and this was not related to the location of the cerebral infarction (Wytrykowska et al., 2016). This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and cerebral infarction.