CHRM3 and autism: <h4>Background</h4>Deletion or duplication on the distal portion of the long arm of chromosome 1 result in complex and highly variable clinical phenotype including.intellectual disability and autism.<h4>Case presentation</h4>We report on a patient with intellectual disability and a 763.3 Kb duplication on 1q43 that includes only CHRM3, which was detected by next generation sequencing (NGS).