A genome-wide association study (GWAS) in Korean patients with scrub typhus identified 8 potent scrub typhus-related SNPs located on PRMT6, PLGLB2, DTWD2, BATF, JDP2, ONECUT1, WDR72, KLK, MAP3K7, and TGFBR2 genes [31]. This evidence concerns the gene WDR72 and scrub typhus.