“…To the best of our knowledge, up to now, 96 patients with chromosome 15q duplication have been reported in literature. Among these, 28 patients showed distal 15q tetrasomy due to a mosaicism or to a neocentromer marker chromosome (NMC) ( 2 , 3 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ) and the others had 15q distal trisomy ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 8 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 ). The duplication of 15q chromosome can be classified in pure and impure forms, based on the presence of another chromosome abnormality (e.g.…”