When the 160 SLE patients were divided into 63 with and 97 without LN, the levels of lnc-DC were significantly higher in LN compared with SLE without nephritis (p = 0.005), but no significant difference in levels of GAS5 (p = 0.239) and linc0597 (p = 0.252) was found between LN and SLE without nephritis, which is in agreement with what we observed previously [26]. Here, GAS5 is linked to nephritis.