While in a genome-wide SNP genotyping approach in 1,906 unrelated Caucasian individuals with type 1 diabetes, an association between ESRD and CNDP1 was observed [19], this was not found in another case-control study, consisting of 1,269 Caucasian patients with type 1 diabetes [20]. The gene discussed is CNDP1; the disease is type 1 diabetes mellitus.