KCNJ11 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Initial reports were inconsistent for the association between KCNJ11 polymorphism (rs5219) and T2D in Caucasian populations [13]–[15] but later studies of Hani et al.,(1998), Gloyn et al., (2003) and Love et al., (2003) which had larger sample sizes, established this association [5], [7], [8].