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The first-tier tests revealed an abnormal karyotype 46,XY,t(5;15)(p13;q25)dn and a preserved <jats:italic>NIPBL<\/jats:italic> sequencing. Copy number variants (CNVs) at the translocation breakpoints, in disease genes, or in probably pathogenic loci were excluded by a-CGH analysis. Through fluorescence <jats:italic>in situ<\/jats:italic> hybridization (FISH) analysis on derivative chromosome 5, the breakpoint was relocated 3 Mb far from <jats:italic>NIPBL<\/jats:italic> 5\u2032UTR, which seemed fully maintained as FISH-probe mapping to the gene showed no split signals. Moreover, tri-color FISH revealed an apparently balanced paracentric inversion including <jats:italic>NIPBL<\/jats:italic> on derivative 5. Based on the strong clinical suspicion, we evaluated the <jats:italic>NIPBL<\/jats:italic> transcript by RT-qPCR that revealed a normal amount of transcript till exon 22 and a halved amount of the transcript from exon 23 to 3\u2032UTR, indicating the expression of a truncated transcript probably leading to a defective protein. Despite RT-qPCR confirmed the patient\u2019s CDLS clinical diagnosis, the molecular mechanism underlying this event remained to be an unsolved challenge for years. The LRS approach with nanopore technologies was able to fill the gap in this complex scenario and highlighted a chromothripsis event marked out at 5p13.2 by 36 breaks clustered in a 7.3-Mb region. The <jats:italic>NIPBL<\/jats:italic> gene was disrupted by 16 breaks and the resulting fragments were relocated in different positions and orientations. LRS confirmed the previous findings, and it has been proven to be crucial to define the complex chromosomal rearrangement in this patient which escaped current diagnostic investigations. 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