THAP1 and Dystonia: The THAP1 protein binds to the THAP1-binding sequence (THABS), which is part of the THAP1 promoter (Erogullari et al., 2014) as well as of the promotor of TOR1A that is the mutated gene of DYT-TOR1A dystonia (formerly DYT1; Gavarini et al., 2010; Kaiser et al., 2010).