Also, serum MBL concentrations were significantly higher in patients with macroalbuminuria as compared to patients with normal albumin excretion rate, which persisted in the group of patients with high MBL expression genotypes (10), however, no SNPs in the MBL2 gene were reported to confer risk of T1D or diabetic nephropathy. The gene discussed is MBL2; the disease is type 1 diabetes mellitus.