text: Several similar studies concerned the influence of other genetic variants in the RELN gene on autism susceptibility (Persico et al., 2001; Krebs et al., 2002; Zhang et al., 2002; Bonora et al., 2003; Devlin et al., 2004; Li et al., 2004; Bartlett et al., 2005; Skaar et al., 2005; Serajee et al., 2006; AshleyKoch et al., 2007; Dutta et al., 2008; Li et al., 2008; Holt et al., 2010; He et al., 2011; Tian, 2012), which are in accordance with our results, including a significant association between the RELN genetic variant (rs2073559) and autism susceptibility (Ashley-Koch et al.