Importantly, we identified three novel susceptibility genes for T2D (i.e., L3MBTL3 on chromosome 6, CELF4 on chromosome 18, and RUNX1 on chromosome 21), with two SNPs in L3MBTL3 (rs10485400 and rs4897366), two in CELF4 (rs2852373 and rs608489), and five in RUNX1 (rs445984, rs1040328, rs990074, rs2223046 and rs2834970). Here, CELF4 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.