“…6 Until now, 26 significantly linked non-specific intellectual disability of autosomal recessive inheritance (NS-ARID) loci were described, [7][8][9][10] and only 10 genes (six of them located in described regions) were identified: PRSS12 (OMIM#606709, on 4q26, former MRT1), CRBN (OMIM#609262, on 3p26, former MRT2), CC2D1A (OMIM#610055, on 19p13.12, former MRT3), ST3GAL3 (OMIM#606494, on 1p34.3), GRIK2 (OMIM#138277, on 6q16, former MRT6), TUSC3 (OMIM#601385, on 8p22, former MRT7), ZNF26 (no OMIM#, on 19q13.2), TRAPPC9 (OMIM#613192, on 8q24, former MRT13), ZCH14 (OMIM# 613279, on 14q31.3), and TECR (MIM*610057 on 19p13.12) (Figure 1). 1,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Taking into account that over 90 genes are responsible for only about 40% of X-chromosomal recessive ID cases, and that about half of the estimated 22 000 human genes are expressed in the brain, the total number of ARID genes may run into the hundreds. 1 Considering the heterogeneity observed in previous linkage studies, and the fact that the so far identified genes do not account for a significant fraction of NS-ARID cases, systematic approaches are the most promising strategy to identify further genes.…”