ACE2 and metabolic syndrome: We quantified adipose ACE2 expression levels in bulk RNA-Seq data from TwinsUK [22, 44, 45] (765 female mono- and dizygotic twins), 426 males from the Metabolic Syndrome in Men (METSIM) study [23], and 149 Finnish males and 131 Finnish females from the Finland-United States Investigation of NIDDM Genetics (FUSION) Tissue Biopsy Study [24].