Three of these SNPs were associated with diastolic blood pressure (rs1378942 in CSK, rs653178 in ATXN2 and rs3184504 in SH2B3), two with type 1 diabetes (rs9388489 in C6orf97 and rs3184504 in SH2B3), as well as one each with a lipid trait (rs174579 in FADS2), body mass index (rs6499640 in FTO), folate pathway (rs602662 in FUT2) and inflammation (rs4796217 in CCL4L2). This evidence concerns the gene ATXN2 and type 1 diabetes mellitus.