Thus, there is a current unmet need to better characterize the genetic causes of dystonia in children by analyzing not only well known genes such as DYT-1 and DYT-5 but also recently discovered genes that have primarily been characterized in adult patients, or which exhibit phenotypic pleiotropy on the one hand (75), and to account for the growing recognition of genetic heterogeneity in the causes of dystonia on the other (75). Here, TOR1A is linked to Dystonia.