Table 2 Numbers of genes located in the vicinity of the SNPs (from Table 1) which are associated with T2DM with different cut-off of P-values in DGI and WTCCC GWAS

P < 0.01 (WTCCC)

18

86

P < 0.05 (WTCCC)

52

243

P < 0.01 in DGI and P < 0.05 in WTCCC or

P < 0.01 in WTCCC and P < 0.05 in DGI

118