AGO1 and autism spectrum disorder: Recent SFARI study has identified missense mutations in miRISC proteins AGO1, TNRC6B, and CNOT3 among patients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Chen et al., 2019) Patients with microdeletions of chromosomal region 1p34.3 encompassing the AGO1 and AGO3 genes also show several neurodevelopmental defects (Tokita et al., 2015).