Other factors also causing RLS (e.g., medication, rheumatoid arthritis, pregnancy, neuropathy and fibromyalgia), iron parameters (e.g., ferritin- or transferrin receptor-level), or a classification of the severity of RLS, were not recorded, and the answers of patients, or diagnoses made by their physicians might have been inaccurate. The gene discussed is TFRC; the disease is fibromyalgia.