Table 1.

Case-Control Series for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.^*

Series	No. of Case Patients	No. of Controls
Rheumatoid arthritis
NARAC	607	1309
Replication series	1013	1326
EIRA	1529	881
Lupus†
UCSF	575	416
ABCoN	349	416
MADGC	115	416

^*NARAC denotes the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium, EIRA the Epidemiological Investigation of Rheumatoid Arthritis, UCSF the University of California at San Francisco, ABCoN the Autoimmune Biomarkers Collabora-tive Network, and MADGC the Multiple Autoimmune Diseases Genetics Consortium.

^†The three sets of controls for the three lupus case-control series are 1248 in-dependent samples that were randomly assigned to the three series.