“…Similarly, several other cytokine-related genes have been associated with diabetes or other clinical metabolic traits in several GWAS: MAPK8IP1 , implicated in interleukin (IL)-1 induced apoptosis beta cells [ 45 ] and IFNGR1 (CD119), encoding the gamma interferon cytokine receptor [ 44 ]. GWAS also revealed genes involved in inflammatory signalling pathways, inside pancreatic endocrine islets, adipocytes or more systemically in the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome leading to T2D: ST6GAL1 , involved in cell-surface antigens production [ 46 ], JAZF1 , a regulator of inflammation in adipose tissue [ 47 ], two inflammatory genes MAP3K1 in JNK pathway [ 48 ] or MACROD1 as a NF-κB regulator [ 48 ], NFE2L3 , implicated in cellular stress responses [ 50 ] and TLR4 , from the toll-like receptor family, activating the intra-cellular NF-κB pathways [ 44 ] ( Table 1 ). Continuing to increase the number of included individuals, and the coverage of the genome, a more recent study, including nearly one million Europeans, doubled the number of T2D-associated signals, up to 403, from common alleles through rare variants, including 19 protein-coding variants corresponding to 18 distinct genes ( PATJ , GCKR , SCD5 , ANKH , PAM , MRPS30 , POC5 , RREB1 , SLC30A8 , NEUROG3 , QSER1 , CDKN1B , WSCD2 , HNF1A , IRS2 , ZNF771 , APOE and HNF4A ) [ 49 ].…”