Selection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
Based on the available literature studies, we selected nine SNPs, which were earlier shown to be associated with a variety of autoimmune diseases (Miao et al., 2013; Xia, Qin, & Zhao, 2018; Yun et al., 2019; Yu, Liu, Bai, Kijlstra, & Yang, 2014; Yu, Liu, Zhang, et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2019). Finally, we selected three SNPs (rs3118470, rs2104286, and rs7093069) for IL2RA, one SNP (rs895819) for miR27a,one SNP (rs76481776) for miR182, and four SNPs (rs2297626, rs17592236, rs9549241, and rs12585277) for FoxO1.