Furthermore, the SDI and the clinical signs of SLE patients, including cutaneous manifestations, fever, oral ulcer, arthritis, neuropsychiatric lupus (NPLE), alopecia, effusion, proteinuria, leucopenia, hematuresis, pyuria, thrombocytopenia, erythrocytopenia and anemia, were analyzed and correlated with increased TIM-3+PD-1+NK cells. Here, HAVCR2 is linked to systemic lupus erythematosus.