TAS2R7 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: LD Block 1 contains rs2588350 along with two other SNPs with significant T2DM associations (Table 1; r2 = 0.50–0.83): rs619381, a nonsynonymous coding SNP in TAS2R7 (C519T, encoding Met304Ile; P = 0.009; p_ACT = 0.24) and rs3741845, another nonsynonymous coding SNP in TAS2R9 (C560T, encoding Ala187Val; P = 0.005; p_ACT = 0.15).