ME2 and meningitis: Of the genes putatively implicated in meningitis in the MeninGene cohort at the suggestive level, we noted that the ME2 promoter variant rs2850542 is an eQTL for the same gene in whole blood (p = 5.9 × 10–20, Supplementary Fig. 9A) and specifically in monocytes (false discovery rate 5.1 × 10–26)52.