CACNA2D3 and autism spectrum disorder: The fact that all of the above-mentioned phenotypes demonstrated in the present study share similarities with other mutant mouse models displaying autistic-like characteristics (Peça et al., 2011; Kalueff et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2016), contributes to the accumulating evidence of CACNA2D3 as a potential risk gene for autism spectrum disorders (Iossifov et al., 2012; De Rubeis et al., 2014; Landmann et al., 2018a).