A possible link between CADPS2 and central dopamine (DA) function is also suggested by the fact that a maternally inherited variation of CADPS2 gene in patients with autism spectrum disorder disrupts the interaction of CADPS2 with the DA receptor type 2 (Bonora et al., 2014) and by the discovery of a small neuronal cell cluster characterized by CADPS2 overexpression and low TH levels in the midbrains of patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (Smajić et al., 2022). Here, CADPS2 is linked to autism spectrum disorder.