CAPRIN1 and autism spectrum disorder: Caprin1 dysfunction leads to multiple diseases such as nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Yang et al., 2022) as well as language impairment and autism spectrum disorder (Pavinato et al., 2023), via, for example, Caprin1’s modulation of the function of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP; Tsang et al., 2019; Kim et al., 2019; El Fatimy et al., 2012).