Chemokine CCL2, a multifunctional factor implicated in various aspects of liver pathogenesis such as acute liver injury, chronic HBV/HCV infection, cirrhosis, and tumorigenesis (Baeck et al., 2012; Mandrekar et al., 2011), is regarded as a reliable indicator of potential signal sources in SLE (Bauer et al., 2009). This evidence concerns the gene CCL2 and systemic lupus erythematosus.