CNTNAP2 and autism: We, and others, have identified common non-coding variants in CNTNAP2 that are associated with some features of autism: rs7794745 in intron 2 is associated with strict autism [36], whereas, the intron 13 variants rs2710102 and rs17236239 are associated with the quantitative autism endophenotypes of age-at-first word [35] and specific language impairment [37].