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These factors included confined placental mosaicism, maternal mosaicism, maternal transfusions, maternal malignancy, vanishing twins and maternal chromosomal abnormalities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Case report<\/jats:title>We presented a case of a 27-year-old healthy woman, who had a high risk of trisomy 21 syndrome in first-trimester serum screening at 12 gestational weeks. The result of NIPT indicated a high risk of klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY) at 15\u00a0weeks gestation. Subsequently, amniocentesis revealed a normal female fetus karyotype (46, XX) at 18\u00a0weeks gestation. Discordant sex chromosome results emerged. Eventually, it was discovered that there was a rare maternal karyotype 46,X,der(X)t (X; Y) (p22.3; q11.2), which led to the sex discrepancy between the NIPT and the fetal prenatal diagnostic results.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusion<\/jats:title>We presented a case in which there was a sex discrepancy between NIPT and fetal genetic testing due to a rare chromosome karyotype in the mother. NIPT was merely a prenatal screening test. 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