MT2A and diabetes mellitus: Others have been associated with diabetes (ZBED3) (Ohshige et al. 2011), asthma (EMID2) (Pasaje et al. 2011), and cancer (FBXO3, HOOK2, MT2A, EIF3E, RPH3AL, PTRF, MT1M, STK32A) (Cha et al. 2011; Krzeslak et al. 2013; Liu et al. 2012; Mao et al. 2012; Shimada et al. 2005).