The potential broader functional outreach of NME7 is also supported by the results of several genome-wide association studies, connecting the variation in the human Nme7 gene with venous thromboembolism [9,10,11], coronary artery disease [12], systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure [12,13], or QT interval [14,15]. Here, NME7 is linked to venous thromboembolism.