HLA-DQA1 and diabetes mellitus: Moreover, one diabetes associated SNP (rs9272346 HLA-DQA1, PT1D<10−128) was found through the proxy search to overlap with a cis-mQTL-SNP (rs1063355 HLA-DQB1, R2 = 0.87) (Figure 6B) that showed association with mRNA expression in the human islets (Table S5).