Erik Tilch, Barbara Schormair, Chen Zhao, Aaro V Salminen, Ana Antic Nikolic, Evi Holzknecht, Birgit Högl, Werner Poewe, Cornelius G Bachmann, Walter Paulus, Claudia Trenkwalder, Wolfgang H Oertel, Magdolna Hornyak, Ingo Fietze, Klaus Berger, Peter Lichtner, Christian Gieger, Annette Peters, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Alexander Hoischen, Juliane Winkelmann, Konrad Oexle
OBJECTIVE: Restless legs syndrome is a frequent neurological disorder with substantial burden on individual well-being and public health. Genetic risk loci have been identified, but the causatives genes at these loci are largely unknown, so that functional investigation and clinical translation of molecular research data are still inhibited. To identify putatively causative genes, we searched for highly significant mutational burden in candidate genes. METHODS: We analyzed 84 candidate genes in 4,649 patients and 4,982 controls by next generation sequencing using molecular inversion probes that targeted mainly coding regions...
February 2020: Annals of Neurology