CRP and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Two regions in chromosomes 1 and 6 with T2D (1q21–q25 and 6q21–q23) have been related by genome scan studies [27, 28], where the CRP gene is located on the 1q21–q23 region (http://www.genenames.org/data/hgnc_data.php?hgnc_id=2367).