Although our haplotype analysis revealed that the primary T1D association among the three investigated SNPs in ERBB3 was located in rs2292239, recent finer mapping of association surrounding ERBB3 in European population indicated that the association of rs2292239 can be secondary to adjacent SNPs such as rs2271189 and rs11171747 (Keene et al., 2012). This evidence concerns the gene ERBB3 and type 1 diabetes mellitus.