BCL2L11 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Association analyses for T2D validated (P <0.05) sixteen loci previously identified in East Asians and/or Europeans (POU5F1/TCF19, SLC30A8, CUBN, MIR17HG, TMEM18, GLP2R, GIPR, MC4R, BCL2L11, PAX4, IGF2BP2, PRC1, KCNQ1, CDKN2A/B, TLE4, and PAM/PPIP5K2; S7 Table) [4, 26, 39–41], and did not reveal any genome-wide significant loci.