The average plasma values of FGF-21 and GDF-15 reported here also correlated with previous studies in adult MD cohorts (ranging between 7 and 8800 pg/mL for FGF-21, and 100–13,500 pg/mL for GDF-15), and these were significantly higher in the MD patients relative to the healthy and non-MD cohorts, as reported elsewhere [10,21,23,55]. The gene discussed is FGF21; the disease is Menkes disease.