“…The intergenic variants rs3119309, rs7757336 and rs2481030, located between SLC22A2 and SLC22A3 were significantly associated with metformin inefficiency in European cohort. Found in this study polymorphisms were noncoding but they could be in linkage disequilibrium with any causal SNPs within coding/regulatory regions of SLC22A2, SLC22A3 or even SLC22A1 , resulting in altered transport activity or expression level in target tissues [ 35 ]. However, in an unselected sample of 103 healthy male Caucasian volunteers no significant association between renal metformin clearance and some variants of SLC22A2 (rs10755577, rs17588242, Val502 , rs315996, rs316019, rs17589858, Thr130 , rs2928035, rs316024, rs316025, rs316026, rs3127573, rs533452 and rs662301) was determined [ 57 ].…”