Taken together, FRDA and AVED patients thus represented 61.82 % of the patients in this cohort (68 patients) while combined, FRDA, AVED, AOA2, ARSACS and AOA1 accounted for 90.9 % of the cohort (100 patients) of the whole autosomal recessive forms of ataxia in our cohort. This evidence concerns the gene APTX and cerebellar ataxia.