Human

Human Prostate Gene DataBase

Name interleukin 8
Symbol IL8
Aliases LECT; LUCT; MDNCF; SCYB8; TSG-1
Gene Product
  • interleukin 8
Category
  • Polymorphism in Prostate cancer
UniGeneHs.624
OMIM146930
Locus3576
SummaryInterleukin 8; cytokine that plays a role in chemoattraction and activation of neutrophils; has similarity to several platelet-derived factors
Gene Ontology
Expression
EST (465 ESTs, 84 libraries)
Tissue ? Frequency ? Count ?
blood (5/27)0.004 14/40686
bone (2/13)0.009 12/26211
bone marrow (2/263)0.014 22/38555
brain (4/204)0.144 30/362011
colon (9/853)0.021 40/165626
eye (1/33)0.102 2/93836
head and neck (1/990)0.150 1/79796
heart (1/22)0.004 1/55494
kidney (2/86)0.005 4/132968
liver (2/38)0.003 3/46472
lung (7/312)0.063 48/245386
muscle (1/21)0.004 1/71297
ovary (1/144)0.119 2/81880
pancreas (5/33)0.004 94/117255
placenta (1/342)0.006 1/157762
prostate (3/291)0.002 10/109871
skin (1/31)0.267 3/100815
stomach (3/312)0.007 4/129930
umbilical cord (1/3)0.016 2/6185
uncharacterized tissue (28/1773)1.000 163/713325
uterus (4/212)0.006 8/155110
SAGE (11117329 tags, 223 libraries)
Tissue ? Frequency ? Count ?
blood (1/1)1.000 229/339661
brain (18/19)0.009 71/2334367
cerebellum (1/1)0.001 1/51280
colon (8/8)0.035 70/929714
eye (4/6)0.005 8/481996
heart (1/1)0.008 3/168714
kidney (2/2)0.023 7/115792
lung (1/1)0.003 3/267429
mammary gland (13/19)0.233 530/1787721
muscle (2/2)0.005 3/161581
ovary (9/10)0.074 130/738131
pancreas (5/8)0.012 12/289461
prostate (12/13)0.013 39/927721
skin (6/7)0.052 17/79036
stomach (2/3)0.017 10/272930
uncharacterized tissue (14/22)0.087 129/1687710
vascular (3/3)0.028 22/484085
EvidencePolymorphism in Prostate cancer

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Department of Urology
Universityof California, San Francisco