Since glycemia, T2D and CHD have been correlated with adiponectin levels, we tested whether genome-wide significant SNPs for adiponectin levels were associated with glycemia, indices of insulin resistance, and risk of T2D and CHD. Since 5 SNPs (which, due to linkage disequilibrium, represented 4.59 independent statistical tests [see Methods]) were tested for their association with T2D, CHD and metabolic traits, we employed a conservative Bonferroni-corrected threshold of α = 0.011 (where 0.011 = 0.05/4.59) to declare statistical significance for these metabolic diseases and traits. None of the SNPs at the ADIPOQ locus demonstrated a robust relationship with T2D, CHD, homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), homeostasis model assessment beta-cell function (HOMA-B) or BMI (Table 3, Table 4, Table S4). However rs1648707, at ADIPOQ, was associated with a non-statistically significant trend for its relationship with CHD (P = 0.04) and T2D (P = 0.046).
