A 2013 report described a ROHHAD patient with narcolepsy and altered hypocretin-1 levels.
We evaluated the genes encoding hypocretin and its two receptors as candidate genes for ROHHAD.
We searched for coding mutations in 16 ROHHAD patients in HCRT, HCRTR1, and HCRTR2.
We did not identify any potentially causative mutations.
Mutations in HCRT, HCRTR1, and HCRTR2 are not a major cause of ROHHAD.