FOXP2 and autism: Elsewhere, it has been shown that FOXP2 directly regulates CNTNAP2, mutations in which, like FOXP2, were found to be linked to language impairment (Vernes et al. 2008), the autism candidate gene MET, involved in neuronal differentiation (Mukamel et al. 2011) as well as the schizophrenia susceptibility gene Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) in HEK293 cells (76).