TCF7L2 and coronary artery disorder: The other three SNPs (rs7901695, rs4506565, rs4132670) were in weak LD with rs12255372 in our Hispanic populations, but are expected to be in strong LD with the previously-reported BMI-associated TCF7L2 variant, rs7903146 [8] [estimated r2 = 0.72-1.00 across the representative International HapMap Project (HapMap phase 3 [16]) populations of Mexican ancestry in Los Angeles, California (MEX), Utah Residents of Northern and Western European Ancestry (CEU), and Chinese in Metropolitan Denver, Colorado (CHD); Additional file 14: Table S11].