Although we could not find evidence of an eQTL effect for these miRSNPs in any of the public databases, it has been shown that non-coding SNPs repressing PTPN2 are associate with several immune related diseases, including T1D (Bottini et al., 2004), RA (Begovich et al., 2004), and CD (Festen et al., 2011). Here, PTPN2 is linked to rheumatoid arthritis.