According to the American Diabetes Association, approximately 30 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes as of 2012, representing over ten percent of the population. The International Diabetes Federation predicts that this number will rise from 415 million to 642 million worldwide by 2040. Both genetic and environmental factors increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, with epigenetic factors like DNA methylation and histone modification also playing a role. I participated in an ongoing study analyzing insulin resistance in human adipocytes, aiming to explore genetic variants and how single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) differ between insulin-resistant and insulin-sensitive individuals.