In cases of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes, subjects carrying the KCNQ1 risk allele had lower BMI (β = −0.01738 per for C allele for lnBMI; p = 0.0001), and this correlation remained after multiple test correction (Empirical p = 0.0070) (Table S3). This evidence concerns the gene KCNQ1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.