These variants of telomere maintenance genes were found to be involved in the pathogenesis of T2DM in the Northwest Indian population. Of the five variants, only two, rs10936599 of the TERC/MYNN gene and rs74019828 of the CSNK2A2 gene, were significantly associated with T2DM in the females. This evidence concerns the gene CSNK2A2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.