Given the clinical and radiologic similarities between SSc-ILD and IIP, we examined the association of the 13 SNPs among the listed genes, identified in the above IIP and IPF GWASs [7, 8] (TOLLIP and MDGA2 genes were excluded because the related SNPs were not present on the Illumina BeadChip utilized in SSc GWAS) with SSc as a single disease entity, with SSc-ILD by imaging, or SSc-ILD severity (as determined by percent predicted forced vital capacity (FVC%)) in two large SSc patient samples. This evidence concerns the gene MDGA2 and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.