Louise Daugherty commented on gene: KCNQ1OT1: from OMIM : In 2 related individuals with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Niemitz et al. (2004) described 1 case where the deletion was maternally inherited; in the other, it was paternally inherited. In the case of maternal inheritance, the deletion caused BWS with silencing of p57(KIP2) (CDKN1C; 600856), indicating that an element important for the regulation of p57(KIP2) expression had been deleted. When inherited paternally, there was no BWS phenotype, suggesting that the LIT1 RNA itself is not necessary for normal development in humans.
Louise Daugherty Mode of inheritance for gene: KCNQ1OT1 was changed from Other - please specifiy in evaluation comments to MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, paternally imprinted (maternal allele expressed)