In this study, a total of 3525 Korean participants were all genotyped for TNFAIP3 rs22230926 and UBE2L3 rs131654 SNPs, which had shown the lowest P value among the SNPs of each respective gene locus in three previous genome-wide association studies on Asian SLE susceptibility [19, 33, 34]. Here, UBE2L3 is linked to systemic lupus erythematosus.