The diseases or phenotypic traits associated with these cis-regulatory SNPs according to the lncRNA ASE analysis, include diseases of the immune system; multiple sclerosis, Graves’ disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, immune response to small pox vaccine, soluble E-selectin levels, soluble ICAM-1, and ankylosing spondylitis, for which monocytes are a relevant cell type (Table 1). Here, SELE is linked to rheumatoid arthritis.