BACH2 and diabetes mellitus: A meta-analysis of three GWAS studies [the British Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium – WTCCC (16), the Genetics of Kidneys in Diabetes (GoKinD) (17), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (13)], including 1,785 American T1DM cases and 1,727 American controls, reported an association between the BACH2 rs11755527 SNP and T1DM (P = 4.7 x 10-12) (13).