ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: There was a significant association between the allele score of the top nine SNPs and T2D in the case–control study without adjusting for adiponectin levels (OR=0.94, 95% CI=(0.91,0.98), P=0.0015) and this association strengthened after adjusting for adiponectin levels (OR=0.92, 95% CI=(0.89, 0.96), P=2.43×10-5).