KRI1 and osteoarthritis: Little is known about KRI1 except being a nucleolar protein.60CDKN2 is significantly downregulated in blood from patients with osteoarthritis compared with controls and was discussed as a potential blood marker for osteoarthritis.61 In a study mapping osteoarthritis-related QTLs,39 rs1560707 was identified as an eQTL for SLC44A2 in both high-grade and low-grade cartilage, this variant is not in the GWAS credible set.