Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with a wide range of human diseases.However, many of these disease-associated SNPs are located in non-coding regions and have remained largely unexplained.Recent findings indicate that disease-associated SNPs in human large intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) may lead to susceptibility to diseases through their effects on lincRNA expression.There is, therefore, a need to specifically record these SNPs and annotate them as potential candidates for disease.