NME7 and diabetes mellitus: Following the initial pilot observation of an association of variants of the NME7 (nucleoside diphosphate kinase 7, non-metastatic cells 7) gene to indices of diabetes and dyslipidemia in two unrelated human populations [8], we analyzed the Nme7 interactome in a panel of recombinant inbred rat strains combining alleles of two inbred models of metabolic syndrome [9].