BTG3 and Autoimmunity: Therefore, we investigated whether a predictive, sex-specific relationship exists between serum lipids, statin use, and antinuclear antibodies (ANA)—a routine clinical marker of autoimmunity and immune dysfunction—in U.S. men and women (>20 years old; n = 1,526) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2004.