“…Duplication of parts of 3p is relatively rare and was first described by RethorC et a1 [ 19721. To date 17 cases have been described with banding studies to determine location of breaks [RethorC et al, 1972;Ballesta et al, 1974;Sachdeva et al, 1974;Say et al, 1976;Surana et al, 1976;Francke, 1978;Schinzel et al, 1978;Yunis, 1978;Parloir et al, 1979;Hersch et al, 1980;Monteiro de Pino Net0 andFerrari, 1980 Buchinger et al, 1981;Charrow et al, 19811. Whenever both parents were studied, a balanced translocation was found in one of them.…”