A genetic variant associated with skin infections in our study (lead SNP chr5:rs6595799, P = 2.39e−08) is highly correlated (r2 ≥ 0.9) and close to SNPs near LINC01184. LINC01184 is a long intergenic non-protein coding RNA that is differentially expressed in many types of cancers that has previously been reported associated with cancer44,45, blood cell traits46 and other phenotypes47. Here, SLC12A2-DT is linked to skin infection.