STRA6 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: After a case-control analysis in 1002 type 2 diabetes samples and 1000 control samples, we found that the three SNPs in STRA6, rs736118 (P = 0.003), rs4886578 (P = 0.001) and rs974456 (P = 0.001) were significantly associated with type 2 diabetes.