CADM2 and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: At the same time, CADM2 gene expression was downregulated in an animal experiment of duchenne muscular dystrophy, which may be related to intercellular adhesion function, and its expression was also associated with other body indexes, such as body mass index and waist circumference (Granet et al., 2025; Speliotes et al., 2010).