These studies uncovered that the rat antiviral co-expression network is conserved in human monocytes (an observation that was replicated in two independent population cohorts) and that the human EBI2 gene colocalizes with a T1D susceptibility locus previously identified by GWAS but not followed up (Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium., 2007; Barrett et al., 2009). Here, GPR183 is linked to type 1 diabetes mellitus.