Genotyping of the two study populations revealed higher frequency of HOTAIR rs10783618*C/C (35% vs. 23%, p = 0.05) and MALAT1 rs3200401*T/T (18% vs. 7%, p < 0.001) in carrier SLE patients compared to controls (Table 2). Here, HOTAIR is linked to systemic lupus erythematosus.