UCP3 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: In common with our meta-analysis, they also reported that the UCP3 -55C/T polymorphism was associated with T2DM in Asians when assuming an additive inheritance model (OR = 1.15; 95% CI 1.03–1.28), and in the overall population when assuming dominant (OR = 1.33; 95% CI 1.02–1.73) and recessive (OR = 1.19; 95% CI 1.04–1.36) models.