FTO and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Another meta-analysis of association between obesity/BMI-associated loci and T2DM risk [13], using data from studies conducted between 2007 and 2012, revealed that FTO rs9939609 significantly associated with T2DM which also remained significant following adjustment for BMI; Analysis by Vasan et al. [14] has provided evidence that rs9939609 is associated with obesity and T2DM in Asian Indians, with modest attenuation observed when adjusting for BMI.