DHCR7 and type 1 diabetes mellitus: Therefore in our current study aiming to minimize the insufficient protection against biased results, we used our multi-center cohort of patients with T1D in the Chinese Han population and multivariate analysis to investigate the genetic association of non-HLA genes by genotyping 55 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in VTCN1, PTPN22, CTLA4, SUMO4, CD274, IL2RA, INS, DHCR7, ERBB3, VDR, CYP27B1, CD69, CD276, PTPN2, UBASH3A and IL2RB genes.