GLIS3 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: However, only one of these loci (GLIS family zing finger 3 (GLIS3)-rs7020673) was found in a region near a T2D-associated gene (GLIS3-rs7041847) [34, 69], albeit the fact that it has still to be fully resolved if this signal was in fact driven by the presence of undiagnosed late onset autoimmune diabetics in the cohort studied [75].