IFNA1 and systemic lupus erythematosus: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two common multisystem autoimmune diseases that share many clinical manifestations, serological profiles, immunological characteristics, and transcriptomes, for example shared type I interferon (IFN)-stimulated genes of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) transcriptomes (1).