About the Authors

José Miguel Laffita-Mesa

laffita@ataxia.hlg.sld.cu (JMLM); cirahsca2@cristal.hlg.sld.cu (LVP)

Affiliations Center for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba, Branch of Biomedicine of the Cuban Academy of Sciences -ACC-, Havana, Cuba

Jorge Michel Rodríguez Pupo

Affiliation Clinical and Surgical Hospital Lucía Íñiquez Landín, Holguín, Cuba

Raciel Moreno Sera

Affiliation Policlinic and Medical Faculty, Tacajó, Báguanos, Holguín, Cuba

Yaimee Vázquez Mojena

Affiliation Center for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba

Vivian Kourí

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology of Department of ITS, Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí, Havana, Cuba

Leonides Laguna-Salvia

Affiliation Clinical and Surgical Hospital Lucía Íñiquez Landín, Holguín, Cuba

Michael Martínez-Godales

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology of Department of ITS, Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí, Havana, Cuba

José A. Valdevila Figueira

Affiliation Clinical and Surgical Hospital Lucía Íñiquez Landín, Holguín, Cuba

Peter O. Bauer

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada

Affiliations Center for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba, Branch of Biomedicine of the Cuban Academy of Sciences -ACC-, Havana, Cuba

Yanetza González Zaldívar

Affiliation Center for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba

Martin Paucar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Per Svenningsson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Luís Velázquez Pérez

laffita@ataxia.hlg.sld.cu (JMLM); cirahsca2@cristal.hlg.sld.cu (LVP)

Affiliations Center for the Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, Holguín, Cuba, Branch of Biomedicine of the Cuban Academy of Sciences -ACC-, Havana, Cuba

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMLM. Performed the experiments: JMLM JMRP RMS YVM VK LLS JAVF MMG RRL. Analyzed the data: JMLM JMRP RMS YVM VK LLS JAVF MMG YGZ RRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMLM PS LVP. Wrote the paper: JMLM POB MP PS LVP.