UPF1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Genes from 1- to 3-hop neighbors have been described and associated with T2D in literature before, including microtubule nucleation factor (TPX2), fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1), RNA helicase and ATPase (UPF1), and Huntington (HTT) (Tani et al., 2012; Montojo et al., 2017; Hall et al., 2019; Li et al., 2020).