Further research, including whole-genome sequencing (De Rubeis et al., 2014; Yuen et al., 2017), exome sequencing (Iossifov et al., 2014; Ronemus et al., 2014), and targeted sequencing (Stessman et al., 2017), has shown that DSCAM is a strong autism risk gene. This evidence concerns the gene DSCAM and autism.