In subsidiary analyses with BMI in addition to age, sex, the presence of diabetes, NEFA, total cholesterol and triglycerides as dependent variables, plasma PLTP activity but not ANGPTL4 was independently associated with BMI (β = 0.239, p = 0.05 and β = 0.137, p = 0.23, respectively; data not shown). The gene discussed is PLTP; the disease is diabetes mellitus.