The correlations with CRP (r = −0.160, p = 0.079) and procalcitonin (r = 0.153, p = 0.099) were not significant when patients with liver cirrhosis were excluded, whereas IL-6 still positively correlated with sCD137 (r = 0.202, p = 0.029). The gene discussed is IL6; the disease is cirrhosis of liver.