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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2012 Apr 15;39(6):1238–1240. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.111467

Table 1.

Associations between genetic ancestry and autoantibodies with age, sex, and interferon-α (IFN-α) as covariates.

IFN-α Anti-RNP
β SE p β SE p
Sex −0.6465 0.431 0.1336 −0.0362 0.4689 0.9385
Age −0.0408 0.0111 0.0002 −0.0162 0.0122 0.1848
IFN-α* NA NA NA 1.4942 0.3303 6.1 × 10−6
PC1 −1.4764 0.4889 0.0025 −2.1128 0.5576 0.0002
PC2** −3.6297 2.3468 0.1219
PC3**

Anti-RO Anti-SM
β SE p β SE p

Sex −0.1825 0.4459 0.6823 0.0313 0.5299 0.9529
Age 0.0072 0.5235 0.5235 −0.0263 0.0132 0.0466
IFN-α 0.7732 0.3179 0.0150 0.7354 0.3605 0.0413
PC1 −1.2298 0.5261 0.0194 −1.6780 0.6612 0.0112
PC2** −4.3808 2.4314 0.0716
PC3** 1.9206 1.7241 0.2653

Anti-La Anti-dsDNA
β SE p β SE p

Sex 0.1040 0.686 0.8795 0.2188 0.4638 0.6372
Age 0.0129 0.0155 0.4038 −0.0273 0.012 0.023
IFN-α 1.0511 0.494 0.0334 0.8224 0.3168 0.0094
PC1** −1.5001 0.8949 0.0937
PC2** −6.1517 2.991 0.0397
PC3**
*

IFN-α was the dependent variable, so it was not used as a covariate.

**

Values were omitted if components did not meet the first-pass criterion (p < 0.20), indicated with a dash. PC: principal component; NA: not applicable.