IL27 and dilated cardiomyopathy: Elevated IL-27 mRNA levels were observed in the heart tissue of human dilated cardiomyopathy patients, and an IL-27 gene polymorphism involving SNP rs153109, rather than SNP rs17855750, predisposes to dilated cardiomyopathy in the Chinese Han population (Noutsias et al., 2011; Chen et al., 2017b).