We also observed weaker associations between T2D and cg11024682 (SREBF1), cg18181703 (SOCS3), cg14476101 (PHGDH) and cg11376147 (SLC43A1) at p values in the order of 10–5, helping to confirm previous reports of these CpG sites in studies of incident and prevalent T2D [22, 23]. This evidence concerns the gene SOCS3 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.