“…The r 2 value for linkage disequilibrium had to be less than 0.8 between adjacent loci and the minor allele frequency had to be larger than 0.05 in the CHB. Based on the above criteria, we finally included 84 SNPs in or near 60 loci: ANTXR2, 18 CXCR4, 18 CD226, 19 TNFA, 19 MIF, 19 CD28, 19 KIAA1109, 19 PSMC6, 20 PSMA3, 20 STAT4, 21 24 IL20, 24 CDGAP/ARHGAP31, 25 C3orf1/ TIMMDC1, 25 IL15, 25 NRBF2-EGR2, 25 JMJD1C, 25 REEP3, 25 IGF1R-FAM169B, 25 CHD9-TOX3, 25 IRF5, 26 BLK, 27 C5orf30, 27 CD247, 27 ORMDL3, 27 PTPRC, 27 ERAP1, 28 LPP, 29 TRAF1/C5, 30 IL2RA, 31 Intergenic, 31 32 The selected SNPs were genotyped by MassARRAY platform (Sequenom, San Diego, California, USA) and iPLEX Gold Genotyping Assay, and analysed by TYPER software V.4.0. The PCR was performed with the GeneAmp PCR System 9700 thermocycler (ABI, Foster City, California, USA).…”