Identification of new risk loci shared across systemic vasculitides points towards potential target genes for drug repurposing.

"all the analysed datasets came from previously published gwas except for bd for which we included two case/control sets one from a previous gwas (bd gwas ) (obtained from dbgap accession number: phs000272 v1 p1) and one from a recent immunochip study (bd ichip )."

"Competing interests: None declared."

"Funding: This work was supported by the HELICAL Innovative Training Network, a European Commission funded project under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 813545, the Cooperative Research Thematic Network programme (RD16/0012/0013), Redes de Investigación Cooperativa Orientadas a Resultados en Salud (RICORS) (RD21/0002/0039) and by grant PI18/00040 funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III. LO-F was supported by Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowship (IJC2019-040746-I) funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033. AHS is supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health grant number R01 AR070148. DB is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Investigator Grant (GTN1175744). Research at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Program. The Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC) received funding as part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), an initiative of the Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR), National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) and received funds from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), U54 AR057319) and the National Center for Research Resources (U54 RR019497)."