Our findings are further supported by studies that investigated IFNG-AS1 in other autoimmune diseases which revealed that IFNG-AS1 expression from PBMCs was elevated in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients and contributed to Th1 cell response and IFN-γ expression levels which are implicated in the disease’s etiology (Peng et al., 2015). This evidence concerns the gene IFNG and autoimmune disease.