15q Duplication Syndrome: Report on the First Patient from Ecuador with an Unusual Clinical Presentation.
Esteban Ortiz PradoAna Lucía IturraldeKatherine Simbaña-RiveraLenin Gómez BarrenoIván HidalgoMario Rubio-NeiraNicolás EspinosaJuan Izquierdo-CondoyMaría Emilia Arteaga-EspinosaAlex J J ListerAndrés López-CortésAlejandro Cabrera-AndradePublished in: Case reports in medicine (2021)
This is the first Dup15q patient reported in Ecuador and of the very few in South America. This aberration has never been described in a patient with Dup15q, and the unusual clinical presentation is probably due to the atypical distal breakpoint occurring within the gene SNHG14 which lies between BP2 and BP3 and does not therefore contain the whole PWACR. If the duplication disrupted the gene, then it is possible that it is the cause of, or contributing to, the patient's clinical phenotype.