Besides converting EGF (114), the peripheral immune mediator found in the Pardo 2017 study of children with autism (102), ADAM17 converts the other cytokine mediators of autism found in the Pardo study: IL-15 (119), FLT3 (120), CX3CL1(121), and CXCL8 (122). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL8 and autism.