FANCA and Friedreich ataxia: We screened the entire coding sequence of FANCA gene in 61 confirmed cases with FA by direct sequencing and MLPA of which 36 patients (34 unrelated individuals and 2 siblings) found to have 26 different FANCA molecular changes but only 16 (~26.23%) FA patients (15 unrelated individuals with FA and 1 sibling) found to belong to FA-A complementation group, as other point mutations were heterozygous non-pathogenic or pathogenic mutations and a few were single exon deletions for which exact breakpoints could not be addressed by PCR.