CLEC16A and type 1 diabetes mellitus: In 2007, we first identified the region mapping to KIAA0350 (now called C-type lectin-like domain family 16A (CLEC16A) as a novel type 1 diabetes (T1D) susceptibility locus within a 238-kb linkage disequilibrium (LD) block located on chromosome 16p13 [1].