A human patient with a mutation in the MANF gene has been reported to suffer from type-2 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, primary hypogonadism, short stature, mild intellectual disability, obesity, deafness, high myopia, microcephaly, and partial alopecia (Yavarna et al., 2015), highlighting the roles MANF in many organs. This evidence concerns the gene MANF and Intellectual disability.