Then, 3 T2DM-FRGs were screened by taking the intersection of T2DM key genes and FRGs, namely ITGA6, MGST1 and ENO2. At last, MGST1 were validated as the T2DM-FRG in another T2DM islet issues dataset and islet single-cell RNA sequencing dataset. Here, MGST1 is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.