ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Many studies that investigated the association in the Chinese Han population between T2DM and SNPs in the adiponectin gene have been reported recently [16], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43].