In the discovery cohort, genotyping was performed using the Illumina Bead-Array GWAS platform. Specifically, patients were genotyped using Illumina Human 610-Quad BeadChip and controls were genotyped on Illumina Hap550K-BeadChip [9 (link)]. The 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified/confirmed to be associated with IIP [7 (link)], rs2736100 (TERT), rs2076295 (DSP), rs4727443 (AZGP1), rs7934606 (MUC2), rs2034650 (IVD), rs1981997 (MAPT), rs12610495 (DPP9), rs6793295 (LRRC34), rs2609255 (FAM13A), rs11191865 (OBFC1), rs1278769 (ATP11A), rs1379326 (CSMD1) and an additional SNP rs17690703 (SPPL2C) [8 (link)], were investigated in the discovery cohort. We also investigated association of 13 SNPs with anti-topoisomerase 1 antibody (ATA) and anti-centromere antibody (ACA) positive subgroup patients. The SNPs reaching a nominal level of significance (p < 0.05) in the discovery cohort (rs6793295 and rs11191865) were genotyped in the replication cohort using TaqMan allele discrimination assays in a 7900HT fast real-time PCR system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).
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