The peak SLE association was with rs9271593 (p=6.50E-10), which is one of 687 SLE-associated regulatory variants mapping to the XL9 regulatory component within the intergenic region separating DRB1 and DQA1 (Majumder et al., 2006; Majumder et al., 2008). The gene discussed is HLA-DRB1; the disease is systemic lupus erythematosus.