Consistent with the above findings, neonate patients with sepsis that had high serum DEL-1 concentration on the first day of enrollment, exhibited a significant increase in the blood neutrophil count (twofold) the following 24 hours compared to the neonates of the group with low serum DEL-1 concentration (Fig. 5a and Supplementary Table 1). The gene discussed is EDIL3; the disease is Sepsis.