Cadps2 has been linked to autism[2] and is in the 7q autism susceptibility locus (AUTS1). However, the finding of aberrant CADPS2 splicing was not found to be significant in another study.[3]
A knockout mouse model was found to have autistic-like characteristics.[2]
CADPS2 has been linked to human and mouse brain structure in two large genomic studies.[4][5]
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