DKC1 and autism: In VPA females’ model of autism, nooclerin exerted the most pronounced influence on alterations in the transcriptional activities of the tnks genes, telomerase (Tep1, Dkc1) and the shelterin complex (Terf2ip, Pot1a, Tinf2, Tpp1, Trf1 - 2) in the hippocampus.