“…Our proliferation results are supported by other studies. Proliferation defects have been reported previously using iPSC-derived NPCs for both idiopathic ASD and other CNVs, such as 7q11.23 ( Mariani et al., 2015 ; Marchetto et al., 2017 ; Chailangkarn et al., 2016 ; Li et al., 2017 ; Turkalj et al., 2020 ; Prem et al., 2020 ; see Connacher et al., 2018 , for a review). Consistent with these data, numerous genetic studies have suggested that altered proliferation of cortical NPCs may be a potential cellular mechanism for autism risk ( Krishnan et al., 2016 ; Packer, 2016 ; Grove et al., 2019 ; Satterstrom et al., 2020 ).…”