T-cell ALL and myeloid leukaemia cell lines showed complete suppression of both CIITA-PI and CIITA-PIII, five cell lines (Molt-4, CCRF-HSB2, CCRF-CEM, PEER and K562) expressed low or negligible levels of CIITA-PIV, and five (Jurkat, SupT1, TALL1, Molt-3, and KG1) did not express it at all. Here, CIITA is linked to acute lymphoblastic leukemia.