Seventeen consensus genes arose (they were defined as being part of both extreme priority lists obtained using the genes ranked in the top 1% when either /τ2 is as initially estimated or when /τ2 is set to 100): ABCF1, AGER, AIF1, BACE2, C2, CAPG, CCL1, CCL18, CD40, CDKN1A, DOCK2, L3MBTL4, NEBL, NFX1, RND3, RPS19, and TNXB. The list generated is unlikely to be random because it contains at least four genes reported to be associated with RA. This evidence concerns the gene CD40 and rheumatoid arthritis.