However, several recent studies have found that IL-32 negatively regulates immune function in some immune diseases such as asthma (Xin et al., 2018), HIV infection (Palstra et al., 2018), Alzheimer disease (Yun et al., 2015), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (Dali-Youcef et al., 2019). The gene discussed is IL32; the disease is asthma.