MC4R and type 2 diabetes mellitus: In addition, our results were in accordance with a previous meta-analysis involving multiethnic populations by Xi et al [10].Notably, a recent study in Japanese found that rs17782313 was related to glycated hemoglobin, which could be used in type 2 diabetes screening in populations independent of BMI, indicating the potential value of MC4R in type 2 diabetes prediction [39].