To further corroborate the association between LN and BANK1, the top SNP rs4699261 was investigated in a case-control analysis of patients from the discovery cohort with SLE (n = 1091) and stratified for SLE without nephritis (n = 714) and LN (n = 377) versus healthy controls (n = 2707), respectively. This evidence concerns the gene BANK1 and systemic lupus erythematosus.