Similarly, LRMDA has been implicated in a variety of disease conditions that appear to be un-related to melanosome biogenesis: a SNP (rs10824307) near LRMDA is associated with mild-obesity-related diabetes (Mansour Aly et al., 2021), and as highlighted previously (Beyers et al., 2022), at least two OCA7 patients harboring LRMDA mutations have recurrent infections (Kilic et al., 2021). The gene discussed is LRMDA; the disease is diabetes mellitus.