TOR1A, torsin family 1 member A, 1861

N. diseases: 115; N. variants: 14
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Our study suggests that there is an association between rs35153737 and dystonia in a southwestern Chinese population, and it may be caused by high linkage disequilibrium between this deletion and potential pathogenic variants in TOR1A. 28756192 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Early onset in a limb and progression toward a generalized form, but not family history of dystonia, are indicative of DYT1 dystonia in Polish dystonic individuals. 17539945 2007
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE There is no evidence of neurodegeneration in DYT1 dystonia, which suggests that mutant TA leads to functional neuronal abnormalities, leading to dystonic movements. 20298201 2010
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We used a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the responses to mu activation in 2 mouse models of DYT1 dystonia (Tor1a<sup>+/Δgag</sup> mice, Tor1a<sup>+/-</sup> torsinA null mice, and their respective wild-types). 29150865 2018
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The authors report on 2 cases of pediatric generalized dystonia with a DYT1 mutation; the patients, an 11-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy, underwent chronic, pallidal deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus internus (GPi). 24032990 2013
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Analysis of 83 published series including 5,057 patients indicated significant differences in the mean age at onset of five phenotypes of PTD (mean age at onset; 95% CI): DYT1 dystonia (11.3 years; 10.3 to 12.2), writer's cramp (38.4; 36.9 to 39.9), CD (40.8; 40.3 to 41.3), spasmodic dysphonia (43.0; 42.2 to 43.9), and blepharospasm-oromandibular dystonia (55.7; 55.1 to 56.4). 15505159 2004
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Increased risk for recurrent major depression in DYT1 dystonia mutation carriers. 15326234 2004
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Moreover, dystonia and Parkinson disease share the common feature of reduced dopamine neurotransmission in the striatum, so we assumed that mutations in the DYT1 gene might have the same role in cases of early onset primary torsion dystonia (EOPTD) and early onset Parkinson disease (EOPD) that present dystonia. 19038309 2009
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE A 3-base pair (GAG) deletion in the DYT1 gene has recently been found to be responsible for most cases of early-onset primary generalized dystonia. 11104212 2000
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Dystonia remained focal in both siblings.A DYT1 gene deletion was excluded. 11481697 2001
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We screened the entire coding sequence and the 5'-UTR region of TOR1A for rare non-ΔGAG sequence variants in a large series of 940 individuals with various forms of isolated dystonia as well as in 376 ancestry-matched controls. 27477622 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE De novo mutations (GAG deletion) in the DYT1 gene in two non-Jewish patients with early-onset dystonia. 9618171 1998
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Mutational analysis of most of the coding region and splice junctions of TOR1A and TOR1B did not reveal additional mutations in typical early onset cases lacking the GAG deletion (N = 17), in dystonic individuals with apparent homozygosity in the 9q34 chromosomal region (N = 5), or in a representative Ashkenazic Jewish individual with late onset dystonia, who shared a common haplotype in the 9q34 region with other late onset individuals in this ethnic group. 10644435 1999
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE TOR1-A (DYT1) gene was linked to isolated dystonia. 25337725 2014
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Patients with primary dystonia, with or without the DYT1 mutation, may show irregular and arrhythmic jerky movements associated with dystonia. 21496608 2011
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The authors screened 197 patients with dystonia (generalized: n = 5; focal/segmental: n = 126; myoclonus-dystonia: n = 34; neuroleptic-induced: n = 32), 435 with PD, and 42 with various other movement disorders, along with 812 healthy controls, for small deletions in exon 5 of DYT1 and tested for exon rearrangements by quantitative, duplex PCR in 51 GAG deletion-negative dystonia cases. 14872019 2004
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE There are well-known monogenic forms of isolated dystonia with pediatric onset such as DYT1 and DYT6 transmitted with autosomal dominant inheritance and low penetrance. 29396174 2018
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We tested if OCS/OCD is a clinical manifestation of the DYT1 dystonia mutation by interviewing members of families with an identified DYT1 mutation, and classifying by manifesting carriers (MC), non-manifesting carriers (NMC), and non-carriers (NC). 17066475 2007
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Recently, association of a TOR1A(DYT1)/TOR1B risk haplotype with common forms of idiopathic dystonia has been reported in the Icelandic population. 17130424 2006
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated in each study to estimate the influence of TOR1A SNPs genotypes on the risk of dystonia. 28081261 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE While a 3-bp deletion in the DYT1 gene is the most frequent cause of early limb-onset, generalized dystonia, it has also been found in non-generalized forms of sporadic dystonia. 16631205 2006
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Interestingly, mutations in the TOR1A gene (the gene encoding torsinA) are associated with DYT1 dystonia and with the preferential localization of mutated torsinA at the NE, where it is associated with lamina-associated polypeptide 1. 30246678 2019
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Notably, mutations in both of these genes lead to dystonia (DYT6 or DYT1). 25088175 2014
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE These findings provide functional evidence for the potential pathogenic nature of these rare sequence variants in the TOR1A gene, thus implicating these pathologies in the development of dystonia. 24930953 2014
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We tested DYT1 GAG-deletion carriers with (n=119) and without (n=113) clinical signs of dystonia and control individuals (n=197) and found the frequency of the 216H allele to be increased in GAG-deletion carriers without dystonia and to be decreased in carriers with dystonia, compared with the control individuals. 17503336 2007