This study reports the results of a meta-analysis for LN based on three
GWAS of unrelated women of European descent with SLE. The three
GWAS used include the following: set I, samples genotyped using
Illumina HumanHap550v1 as described by Hom et al.
11; set II, samples
genotyped using Illumina HumanHap300 as described by Harley
et al.
10; and set III, samples genotyped using Affymetrix 5.0 as described
by Graham et al.8 The primary inference of this study is based
on a female-only case–case (i.e., patients with SLE with nephritis
versus patients with SLE without nephritis) analysis to minimize