According to previous investigations [5,6,8], it seems most plausible that obesity status interacts with the TCF7L2 gene, prompting the TT risk genotype to associate itself with a higher incidence of T2D in lean subjects; perhaps the effect we observed of the T-allele being associated with lower obesity risk in T2D subjects is a secondary observation to the primary one. Here, TCF7L2 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.