IL6 and necrotizing enterocolitis: One study by Franklin et al. (58) evaluated the association of several pro-inflammatory cytokine gene polymorphisms with NEC in a racially diverse population of pre-term infants from a single center in Washington, DC, and found that non-Hispanic White neonates with the C allele of IL-6 (rs1800795) were over 6 times more likely to have NEC than those with no C allele (p = 0.013; OR = 6.61, 95% CI 1.48–29.39).