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