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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2014 Jun;26(3):210–221. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000071

Table 2.

The list of imprinted genes in humans, which are commonly investigated in relation to assisted reproductive technology

Gene symbol Gene name Expressed parental allele Human chromosomal region Mouse ortholog chromosomal region
KCNQ1OT1 (LIT1, KvDMR1) KCNQ1 overlapping transcript 1 Paternal expression 11p15.5 Distal 7
IGF2 Insulin-like growth factor 2 Paternal expression 11p15.5 Distal 7
H19 H19 Maternal expression 11p15.5 Distal 7
PHLDA2 Pleckstrin homology-like domain family A member 2 Maternal expression 11p15.5 Dist 7
SNRPN Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N Paternal expression 15q11-q13 Central 7
UBE3A Ubiquitin-protein ligase E3A Maternal expression in brain 15q11-q13 Central 7
MEST (PEG1) Mesoderm-specific transcript homolog (paternally expressed gene 1) Paternal expression 7q32.2 Prox 6
PEG10 Paternally expressed gene 10 Paternal expression 7q21.3 Prox 6
PEG3 Paternally expressed gene 3 Paternal expression 19q13.43 Prox 7
L3MBTL Lethal(3) malignant brain tumor-like protein Paternal expression 20q13.12 Chr 2 (not imprinted in mice)

Imprinting data gathered from [45].