A missense variant in SPATA13 has been identified in consanguineous families with intellectual disabilities (Harripaul et al. 2018), and a genome-wide association analysis of comorbid depressive syndrome and alcohol dependence in human patients identified a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in SPATA13 amongst the top hit SNPs of the study, although only at a p value < 10−5 (Edwards et al. 2012). This evidence concerns the gene SPATA13 and alcohol dependence.