DPP10 and autism: Repeatedly, studies have shown that autistic individuals have deletions in synaptic genes, such as SHANK3, dipeptidyl peptidase-like 10 (DPP10), neuroligins, and neurexins (The Autism Genome Project Consortium et al., 2007; Marshall et al., 2008; Glessner et al., 2009; Pinto et al., 2010, 2014; Marshall and Scherer, 2012).