ITGA1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Moreover, another ITGA1 intron variant, rs6867040, has been associated with fasting plasma glucose concentrations in 46,262 European individuals [41], and a recent prepublished GWAS of more than 800,000 samples showed an independent association between three variants at the ITGA1 locus and type 2 diabetes using an additive genetic model [42].