HRAS and autism: Additionally, according to String 9.05, two putative partners of USF1 are CTNNB1 (interactors of this gene have been related to autism; O’Roak et al., 2012) and HRAS (the locus of the gene, 11p15, is a locus for dyslexia; the gene has also been linked to autism and encodes a GTPase involved in neural growth and differentiation, long-term potentiation, and synaptic plasticity; Comings et al., 1996).