TP73 and autoimmune disease: While p73 has not yet been reported to have a role in a human inflammatory or autoimmune disease, there is a human single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within a TP73 intron (dbSNP: rs12027041) with modest association (P = 1.1E−5) to rheumatoid arthritis based on the HGVST10 GWAS database34.