KCNQ1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Previously, 31 variants across 28 T2D risk loci were reported to have sex-specific effects on T2D in a trans-ancestry GWAS, including one variant near TM6SF2 (rs8107974), two variants at GLI2 (rs11688931, rs11688682), and one variant at KCNQ1 (rs2237895) (Mahajan et al, 2018).