STARD10 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: On the other hand, when we extended a previous study of human pancreatic islet expression30 that had associated increased STARD10 expression with the minor (T2D-protective) allele at the GWAS proxy variant rs1552224 and added human islet data from two new independent subject groups provided by the IMIDIA consortium, derived from both organ donors and partial pancreatectomy patients, we could show reproducible association with STARD10 expression.