MKRN3 and central precocious puberty: Like MKRN3, DLK1 is expressed from the paternal allele and paternal inheritance of a complex genomic rearrangement including the translation start site of DLK1 was associated with isolated familial CPP.32 The association of CPP with loss-of-function alleles in two paternally expressed genes supports a role for imprinting affecting the timing of puberty.32