Rs6910071

This SNP, along with SNPs rs660895 and rs3817964, is a tag SNP for the HLA-DRB1*0401 allele.

The HLA-DRB1*0401 allele has been associated with higher risk for rheumatoid arthritis, and in particular, rheumatoid vasculitis. The association is seen particularly for individuals carrying two copies of, i.e. homozygous for, the allele. The reported odds ratio for rs6910071(G;G) homozygotes is 6.2 (CI: 1.01 - 37.9).

The risk for rheumatoid arthritis may be higher for individuals carrying one copy (one "dose") of the HLA-DRB1*0401 allele, if they also carry a different HLA-DRB1 risk allele. In particular, *0401/*0404 individuals are reported to have an odds ratio for rheumatoid vasculitis of 4.1 (CI: 1.1 - 16.2), and *0401/*0101 individuals have an odds ratio of 4.0 (CI: 1.4 - 11.6).

rs6910071 was found to be associated with rheumatoid arthritis based on a study by the eMERGE network in which electronic medical records were searched to find clinical associations associated with selected SNPs.

A high-resolution linkage-disequilibrium map of the human major histocompatibility complex and first generation of tag single-nucleotide polymorphisms.

A principal-components-based clustering method to identify multiple variants associated with rheumatoid arthritis and arthritis-related autoantibodies.

Elastic-net regularization approaches for genome-wide association studies of rheumatoid arthritis.

Genome-wide analysis of haplotype interaction for the data from the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium.

A genome-wide association scan for rheumatoid arthritis data by Hotelling's T2 tests.

A two-stage search strategy for detecting multiple loci associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Assessment of gene-covariate interactions by incorporating covariates into association mapping.

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in celiac disease and rheumatoid arthritis identifies fourteen non-HLA shared loci.