CASP8 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Among the MCODE genes screened above, we found that BCL2, CARM1, CASP8, HDAC3, HDAC6, MCL1, NR3C1, BACE1, CASP1, CCR5, and CTSBT2D were expressed in another independent dataset (GSE182923) with T2DM samples.