IGF2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: The insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) mRNA-binding proteins (IGF2BP1-3 or IMP1-3) are a family of RNA binding proteins that participate in post-transcriptional gene regulation (Nielsen et al., 1999; Yisraeli, 2005); notably, SNPs in the second intron of the human IMP2 gene are associated with increased risk for Type 2 Diabetes (Saxena et al., 2007).