ADAMTS9 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Additional GWAS have revealed more information about the potential role for ADAMTS9: a variant in ADAMTS9 (rs6795735, MAF = 59.4%, linkage disequilibrium (LD) to WHRadjBMI SNP rs2371767 = 0.31, HapMap 2 samples of Northern and Western European ancestry living in Utah (the CEU population) [60]) was also found to be nominally associated with decreased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) (rs6795735, Z-score = –2.5, P = 0.01) and T2D risk (rs6795735, OR = 1.12, P = 0.002) through GWAS, but not with BMI [14,61].