This genetic variant has previously been shown associated with fasting glucose (FG) [5], [16] and is as such considered a type 2 diabetes related variant; interestingly, a genome-wide association study reported that the risk allele of SLC2A2 rs5400 which is in perfect linkage disequilibrium (LD – r2 = 1.0) with the lead SNP of SLC2A2 rs11920090 [16] was associated with total fasting serum cholesterol level[17] suggesting a possible biological explanation for the statistical relationship between the gene variant and increased risk of CVD. Here, SLC2A2 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.