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Publication Divergence in Cytogenetic and Molecular Genetic Analysis Results: A Case Report of Fragile X Syndrome among Siblings(Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation, 2010) ;Elias Marjanu Hikmah ;Mamat Norhashimah ;Ismail Siti Mariam ;Salmi Razak ;Pornprot Limprasert ;Wanna Sudhikaran ;Ravindran AnkathilAlwi ZilfalilBackground: Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most prevalent inherited cause of mental retardation. The prevalence of FXS in males and females are approximately 1 in 4000 and 1 in 8000 respectively. It is caused by CGG repeat instability in the FMR1 gene, located on chromosome Xq27.3. Normal individuals have CGG repeats ranging from 5 to 53. In premutation carriers, the CGG repeats range from 60 to 200 and shall be more than 200 repeats for full mutation patients. FXS patients have variable clinical features and because of that, an accurate clinical diagnosis is always a problem. Currently, Cytogenetic, PCR and Southern Blot Techniques are widely used for diagnosis of FXS. Case Report: Here we report a pair of brothers suspected to be FXS patients with similar clinical features. However, the cytogenetic result for younger brother did not show fragile site at Xq27.3 of the X chromosome while molecular result was confirmatory for FXS. Conversely, the elder brother showed confirmatory results for Fragile X mutation in both cytogenetic and molecular analysis. Conclusion: We therefore conclude that patient 1 confirms for Fragile X mosaic and patient 2 for Fragile X full mutation. From the result, cytogenetic analysis alone cannot be dependable for the confirmatory diagnosis of FXS.