KLF14 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: GWAS study identified a group of highly correlated SNPs including rs972283 and rs4731702 (r2 = 0.967 in Caucasians reported by 1000 Genome project) upstream of KLF14 gene in association with multiple metabolic traits and T2D in Caucasians [45], which was recently confirmed by a meta-analysis in a global population [58].