GDF15 and diabetes mellitus: In the next two sections, section 2 –Experiment evidence and section 3 –Disease association, we found that FAS, CRELD1, GDF15, CRP, and GPT were all found to be significantly associated with diabetes in a minimum of one RHAPSODY experiment, while only the Slieker et al [11] candidates were significant in the RHAPSODY cohort meta-analysis.