IL-9 producing CD4+ T cells have been associated with a number of different diseases including bacterial and fungal skin infections, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, autoimmune disorders and allergies affecting the skin including psoriasis and acute contact dermatitis and cancers such as metastatic melanoma [117,118,119]). This evidence concerns the gene IL9 and inflammatory bowel disease.