Between Chinese patients with UM and control subjects with cataracts, significant differences were observed in the expression of numerous angiogenic, chemotactic, and inflammatory cytokines, such as IP-10, IL-6 and IL-8, NGF-β, PLGF-1, b-FGF, EGF, VEGF-A, and RANTES [90]. This evidence concerns the gene EGF and cataract.