As obesity and insulin metabolism are closely linked to T2DM, more and more studies have been performed in attempt to investigate the relationship between the Leu72Met polymorphism and T2DM risk across various counties (Larsen et al., 2005; Choi et al., 2006; Kim et al., 2006; Jiang et al., 2008; Xu and Xiang, 2008; Berthold et al., 2009; Garcia et al., 2009; Cui et al., 2010; Xiang et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2012; Zhuang et al., 2014; Joatar et al., 2017). The gene discussed is INS; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.