ELMO1 and Nephropathy: Remarkably, worldwide genetic studies in humans reported a susceptibility of diabetic patients with gene variants of ELMO1, ELMO2 or ELMO3 to develop kidney damage (Shimazaki et al., 2005; Bento et al., 2008; Leak et al., 2009; Hanson et al., 2010; Wu et al., 2013; Alberto Ramirez-Garcia et al., 2015; Liu et al., 2015; Turki et al., 2018).