Furthermore, Phillips et al. in a small study including 82 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) of a Caucasian population found that the subjects heterozygous for the -493 G/T had lower LDL-cholesterol and, in the postprandial phase, higher apoB48 levels in the VLDL fraction. The gene discussed is APOB; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.