Mutational screening of THAP1 in a German population with primary dystonia
β Scribed by Maria Kaffe; Nadine Gross; Florian Castrop; Christian Dresel; Christian Gieger; Peter Lichtner; Bernhard Haslinger; Juliane Winkelmann
- Book ID
- 116821031
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1353-8020
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## Abstract Primary dystonias are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of movement disorders, but only for two of them, i.e., dystonia 1 and dystonia 6, the disease causing gene has been identified. Dystonia 1 is characterized by an early onset and is caused by a mutation in the __TOR1A
## Abstract The __TOR1A__ and __THAP1__ genes were screened for mutations in a cohort of 21 Brazilian patients with Primary torsion dystonia (PTD). We identified a de novo delGAG mutation in the __TOR1A__ gene in a patient with a typical DYT1 phenotype and a novel c.1A > G (p.Met1?) mutation in __T