“…The genotypic and allelic frequencies did not differ between the study groups (Table 2). Similar results were found in other studies with Caucasian (Novota et al, 2005, Szeszko et al, 2006, Hadzija et al, 2013, Turkish (Altinova et al, 2010), Iranian (Mojtahedi et al, 2006), and Brazilian populations (Tavares et al, 2013). Some studies did not report any association between different 607 IL18 (rs1946518) genotypes and the onset age in adult T1DM patients (Altinova et al, 2010), or T1DM in adults or Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of the Adult (LADA) (Novota et al, 2005), which was in accordance with our results; however, significant associations were found with T1DM in Asian populations (Dong et al, 2007, Lee et al, 2015.…”