NR2F1 and autism: Interestingly, specific deletions only affecting the region adjacent to the NR2F1 gene, where the long non-coding (lnc)-NR2F1 RNA is located, were also shown to cause neurodevelopmental conditions with developmental and speech delay [213], probably due to the ability of lnc-NR2F1 to control the expression of autism-associated neural genes in a similar way to its corresponding protein-coding gene.