LCMT1 and neurodegenerative disease: As an eQTL in pig brain tissue (Teng et al., 2024), LCMT1 is also implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's (Nicholls et al., 2016) and manganese-related neurotoxicity (Xu et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2023), highlighting its importance for brain function and neuroprotection (Sontag et al., 2008; Gnanaprakash et al., 2021).