Further, earlier studies among the northern [10] and western Indian populations [11] demonstrated that the SNPs of FTO gene predispose South Asian Indians to T2DM and unlike in Europeans they do not appear to do this entirely through their influence on BMI; even after adjusting for BMI, these SNPs showed significant association with T2DM [59] and this has been the case with the present study as well. This evidence concerns the gene FTO and type 2 diabetes mellitus.