KIZ and autism: KIZ has been identified as significantly associated with autism in previous GWAS (Grove et al., 2019), TWAS (Huang et al., 2021), gene-based analysis (Alonso-Gonzalez et al., 2019), and methylation-based studies (Hannon et al., 2018), and the involvement of cell cycle regulation in autism susceptibility which has also been implicated in previous research (Packer, 2016; Pramparo et al., 2015).