While adjustments for admixture reduced the strength for the observed associations with T2D-ESRD (Additional file 1, Table S5), associations with IGFBP1 rs9658233 and IGFBP3 (rs10255707, rs3110697, rs924140 and rs903889) remained nominally significant. Here, IGFBP3 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.