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. The gene discussed is SLC12A2-DT; the disease is cancer.