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 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 Biomarker group BEFREE In idiopathic or DYT1 dystonia, cognition is largely intact with only isolated executive dysfunction. 28627117 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The current study provides the first in vivo support that direct pathological insult to forebrain torsinA in a symptomatic mouse model of DYT1 dystonia can engage genetically normal hindbrain regions into an aberrant connectivity network. 28673740 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Using a microarray screen to identify genes expressed in this intermediate population, we find the kelch-like family member Klhl14, implicated in dystonia through its direct binding with torsion-dystonia-related protein Tor1a. 29045835 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Here, we provide for the first time direct measurement of elevated striatal extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) in a knock-in mouse model of human DYT1 dystonia (TorA<sup>∆E/+</sup> mice), confirming a striatal hypercholinergic state. 28587876 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Membrane defects and genetic redundancy: Are we at a turning point for DYT1 dystonia? 27911022 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We report that changes of phosphodiesterase-10A (PDE10A) can map widespread functional imbalance of basal ganglia circuits in a mouse model of DYT1 dystonia overexpressing mutant torsinA. 28115486 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE This control mechanism is offset by a TorsinA mutation implicated in the severe movement disorder DYT1 dystonia, suggesting a critical role for the functional Torsin-cofactor interplay <i>in vivo</i>. 28553638 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Three genes (GCH1, THAP1, TOR1A) were associated with isolated generalized dystonia, whereas 2 (ANO3, ADCY5) gave rise to combined dystonia-myoclonus phenotypes. 27666935 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE We conclude that there is ample evidence to suggest that the cerebellum plays a role in some dystonias, including the early-onset primary torsion dystonia DYT1 and that further studies examining the role of this brain region and its interaction with the basal ganglia in dystonia are warranted. 28843013 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The last exon of TOR1A was sequenced in 229 cases with isolated dystonia and in 210 controls. 28432771 2017
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Although clinically similar to most cohorts with dystonia worldwide, the classical mutation (c.907_909delGAG) in TOR1A (causing DYT1) is absent in our patients. 26940431 2017
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 Biomarker group BEFREE These scientific contributions strengthen the role of LAP1 in DYT1 dystonia and muscular dystrophy. 26596547 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Dystonia type 1 (DYT1) is one of the different forms of inherited dystonia, a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, disabling movements. 27707963 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Rodent models of DYT1 dystonia, a motor disorder caused by a single gene mutation, demonstrate increased long-term potentiation and decreased long-term depression in corticostriatal synapses. 27249418 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Here, we discover a role for deficient eIF2α signaling in DYT1 dystonia, a rare inherited generalized form, through a genome-wide RNAi screen. 27939583 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE GNAL mutations are not a common cause of dystonia in the Brazilian population and have a lower prevalence than THAP1 and TOR1A mutations. 26810727 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE TOR1A (torsinA, DYT1) is the leading cause of early-onset generalized dystonia, however, the associations between common TOR1A single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and primary adult-onset focal dystonia are controversial. 26704435 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Together with previous findings in the motor cortex and the spinal cord, the brainstem may lie closer to the pathogenesis of dystonia than the motor cortex in DYT1 gene carriers. 27508977 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE This study argues that DYT1 dystonia is a network disorder, with crucial nodes in sensory-motor integration of posterior parietal structures. 27453152 2016
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE This observation raises the possibility of genotype-phenotype correlations in DYT1 and indicates that the clinical spectrum of this type of dystonia might be broader then previous classic descriptions. 26297380 2015
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE To analyze contribution of rs3842225 and rs1182 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in TOR1A gene, the causative gene for the DYT1 form of hereditary early-onset generalized dystonia, to the development of focal and segmental dystonia in Russian patients. 25203860 2015
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Studying Torsins has significant medical relevance since mutations in Torsins or Torsin-associated proteins result in a variety of congenital human disorders, the most frequent of which is early-onset torsion (DYT1) dystonia, a severe movement disorder. 26592310 2015
CUI: C0393593
Disease: Dystonia Disorders
Dystonia Disorders
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE However, whether dopamine imbalance is key to DYT1 or other forms of dystonia continues to be debated. 25860259 2015