DUSP8 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: In addition, although a meta‐analysis showed that the association of DUSP8 single‐nucleotide polymorphism re2334499 with type 2 diabetes was limited to males2, a genome‐wide association study, initially identifying DUSP8 as a type 2 diabetes risk gene, showed that the type 2 diabetes risk associated with re2334499 was inherited with the paternal allele.5