Several studies reported that elevated levels of the inflammatory biomarkers, c-reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), are associated with cardioembolic stroke [89,98,99,100,101,102,103,107,108,109]. The gene discussed is IL6; the disease is cardioembolic stroke.