Although, these genes were not in the list of DEGs but eleven of them (TP53, TNF, MAPK3, ACTB, RAC2, ZAP70, CD19, CDKN1A, CDK4, CTSD, CD74) were downregulated in the autism vs control samples with a logFC value between -0.36 to -0.8. This evidence concerns the gene CDKN1A and autism.