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