ATG7 and neurodevelopmental disorder: Recently, GWAS studies in mice and human cells confirmed ATG5, ATG7 and identified ATG101 and ATG16L1 as crucial for maintaining neuronal survival in particular, ATG7 was associated with complex neurodevelopmental disorders in patients, confirming the role of these autophagic genes in the control of neuronal homeostasis (Wertz et al., 2020; Collier et al., 2021).