CCL2 (Elmarakby and Sullivan, 2012; Ota, 2013), CCL8 (Sarkar et al., 2012), and CXCL10 (Antonelli et al., 2014; Hueso et al., 2018; Moreno et al., 2022) have also been demonstrated to play a role in the development of diabetes. The gene discussed is CCL8; the disease is diabetes mellitus.