Thus, in addition to the genes identified as having variants in EA associated with IPD, the MYD88 variant rs7744 in the 3′ untranslated region is overrepresented in bacteremia cases among EA (allelic OR 1.49, p = 0.046) with a similar effect in AA (allelic OR 1.50), but which did not reach the p≤0.05 threshold. Here, MYD88 is linked to bacterial infectious disease with sepsis.