CCDC3 and Obesity: More remarkably, CCDC3 has been linked to human pathological disorders, such as atherosclerosis (Kobayashi et al., 2022), inflammation (Azad et al., 2014), obesity (Ugi et al., 2014), and cancer (Multani et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2019; Ke et al., 2022; Li et al., 2023a).