GALNT9 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Among the other 5 genes listed in the table, TLE1 (MIM 600189) has previously been reported and replicated as a T2D susceptibility locus [29, 30], and GALNT9 (MIM 606251) is the left flanking gene of SNP rs10747083 previously found to be significantly associated with fasting glucose [31].