FCRL3 and rheumatoid arthritis: We further examined the relationship between SNP rs17676303 and other annotated SNPs in FCRL3 gene or its promoter region, namely rs7528684, rs3761969 and rs11264798, which have previously been identified as positively associated with GD, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus [25, 33, 43].