The present case-control study included 199 patients with myocardial infarction (MI) (57% men) and 198 control participants (52% men) without previous cardiovascular diseases who underwent genotyping for the MTNR1B polymorphisms rs10830963, rs1387153, and rs4753426 from peripheral blood samples. Here, MTNR1B is linked to myocardial infarction.