In the SLE population as a whole, we found that SLE patients with hypocomplementaemia or leucopenia or/and thrombocytopenia usually had higher IFIT4 mRNA relative expression than did SLE patients without these disorders (P = 0.0121, Figure 2g; P = 0.0301, Figure 2h). The gene discussed is IFIT3; the disease is Thrombocytopenia.