“…Originally thought to be a mitochondrial protein, CIDEA was later discovered to be a lipid droplet (LD)-associated protein (Christianson et al., 2010, Puri et al., 2008, Reynolds et al., 2015) not localized to mitochondria in adipocytes. Unlike in mice (Zhou et al., 2003), CIDEA expression in human adipocytes correlates with insulin sensitivity (Puri et al., 2008) and lipid disorders in obese patients (Feldo et al., 2013). Furthermore, a CIDEA polymorphism has been associated with a clinical metabolic phenotype (Dahlman et al., 2005, Nordstrom et al., 2005, Wu et al., 2013, Zhang et al., 2008).…”