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Background: Partial duplications involving the long arm of the X chromosome are associated with mental retardation, short stature, microcephaly, and a wide range of physical findings. Female carriers usually have no clinical phenotype. Occasionally, they may also have heterogeneous features due to non-random inactivation of the X chromosome.
Methods: The peripheral blood sample was collected from the patient and subjected to a few genetic testing, including chromosomal karyotyping, Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA), Optical genome mapping, short tandem repeat (STR) analysis for Determination of parental origin, and X chromosome inactivation (XCI) analysis.
Results: We have identified a de novo Xq23-Xq26.3 duplication in an adult female featuring extremely short stature and mild mental deficiency. Chromosome analysis detected a duplication on Xq23-q26.3 with a size of approximately 20 Mb. The duplication region has encompassed a number of genes, among which ARHGEF6, PHF6, HPRT1 and SLC9A6 are associated with X-linked mental retardation. Further analysis suggested that the duplication has derived from her father, was of the inversion duplication type and involved various degrees of skewed X chromosome inactivation.
Conclusion: Correlation with her phenotypes might indicate new mechanisms by which the X chromosome may lead to short stature and mental retardation. Our findings thereby may shed more light on the phenotypic implication of functional disomy of X-chromosome genes.
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