Friedreich ataxia in a family from Mali, West Africa

Cheick A.K. Cissé,¹ Lassana Cissé,²Hamidou O. Ba,^1,3 Oumar Samassékou,¹Assiatou Simaga,^1,4 Abdoulaye Taméga,¹ Salimata Diarra,^1,5 Seybou H. Diallo,^1,6 Thomas Coulibaly,^1,2Salimata Diallo,⁶ Abdoulaye Yalcouyé,¹ Alassane B. Maiga,¹Mohamed Keita,^1,7 Kenneth H. Fischbeck,⁵ Sékou F. Traoré,⁸ Cheick O. Guinto,^1,2 Guida Landouré,^1,2,5from the H3Africa Consortium

¹Faculté de Médecine et d’Odontostomatologie, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

²Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Point “G”, Bamako, Mali

³Service de Cardiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

⁴Institut d’Ophtalmologie Tropicale d’Afrique, Bamako, Mali

⁵Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD

⁶Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

⁷Service d’ORL, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

⁸Malaria Research and Training Center, Department of Entomology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Corresponding author: Guida Landouré, Faculté de Médecine et d’Odontostomatologie, USTTB, Bamako, Mali, BP: 1805, Tel: +223 76 36 34 68, email: guida@icermali.org

Funding information: This work is supported by grant number U01HG007044 funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health, USA