Our findings should guide future studies to better understand the pathophysiology of diseases ranging from dystonia to cancer, which are associated with mutations in the genes that encode torsin, LAP1 and/or LINC complex proteins (Luxton and Starr, 2014; Sewry and Goebel, 2014; Rebelo et al., 2015; Ghaoui et al., 2016; Janin et al., 2017; Kariminejad et al., 2017; Reichert et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene TOR1AIP1 and Dystonia.