Furthermore, Sept7 was found to be a phosphorylation target of thousand-and-one amino acid kinase 2 (TAOK2), a serine/threonine kinase encoded by the autism risk gene TAOK2 (de Anda et al., 2012; Yadav et al., 2017; Richter et al., 2018; Nourbakhsh et al., 2021). The gene discussed is TAOK2; the disease is autism.