In addition, recent extensive genome-wide association screens revealed an association of the ANKH gene with a risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Bellenguez et al., 2022; Tesi et al., 2024), other forms of dementia (Katsumata et al., 2022), and type II diabetes (Nugent et al., 2020). Here, ANKH is linked to type 2 diabetes mellitus.