Constitutional mosaicism for two distinct chromosome aneuploidies is a rare cytogenetic abnormality. Most of cases consist of monosomy X and trisomy 21 [Harada et al., 1998]. Only six cases involving monosomy X and trisomy 18 have been reported so far [Schinzel et al., 1974;Serville et al., 1977;Franceschini et al., 1996;Genuardi et al., 1999;Schubert et al., 2002;Lorda-Sanchez et al., 2003]. Little is known about patient phenotype, evolution, and mechanisms leading to this double aneuploidy. We report here on a new case of monosomy X/trisomy 18 mosaicism unexpectedly diagnosed in a girl with mild phenotype.The proposita is the second child of a 29-year-old mother and a 34-year-old father. There was a reported history of lipomas in the maternal family, namely in the mother, the grandmother, and the great-grandmother. The pregnancy was uneventful. The girl was born at 40.5 weeks with a weight of 2,855 g (25th centile), a length of 48 cm (5th centile), and an occipito-frontal circumference (OFC) of 33 cm (10th centile). Apgar scores were 8 and 10 at 1 and 5 min. A single umbilical artery was noticed. At 12 months, she was referred to the clinical genetics service for a nuchal mass that appeared at 5 months of age and was compatible with the diagnosis of lipoma. Clinical examination showed normal length (73 cm, 50th centile) and head circumference (45 cm, 35th centile). Facial dysmorphism was mild and consisted of hypertelorism, large tip of nose, short philtrum, narrow palpebral fissures, and dysplastic ears with a pointed helix (Fig. 1). Psychomotor milestones were normal for age. The patient walked at 13 months. Cardiac, abdominal, and pelvic echography were secondarily performed because of the chromosomal constitution and revealed a biscuspid aorta valve, pelvic left kidney, and absence of ovaries. The nuchal mass was examined again at 13 months. It appeared as a hypervascular mass with hypodermal lesion typical of an immature sub-cutaneous angioma in the right part of the neck. This was confirmed by an echography.Patient's blood karyotype (RHG bands) was performed considering very rare descriptions of constitutional anomalies of chromosome 12 associated with lipomas [Ligon et al., 2005]. It unexpectedly showed trisomy 18 in all 16 metaphases studied: 47,XX,þ18. This result was confirmed on an independent second blood sample (17 mitoses). As the phenotype of the proband was not suggestive of classical trisomy 18, a skin biopsy was performed in order to check for the presence of a mosaic. A first fibroblast culture (cell line 1, passage no. 2 CRB-HCL-CBC Biobank) showed the presence of monosomy X with two normal chromosomes 18 in each cell (16 mitoses). A second fibroblast sample (cell line 1, passage no. 4 CRB-HCL-CBC Biobank) revealed a mosaic pattern including 45,X cells (14/16 mitoses) and trisomy 18 (47,XX,þ18) cells (2/16 mitoses). In order to estimate the proportion of the different populations, FISH analyses using commercial centromeric