However, their expression did not correlate with HOXA5, HOXA7, HOXA9 or MEIS1 and only weakly with PBX3 expression in human leukemia (Spearman, r = 0.37, p = 0.033 and r = 0.44, p = 0.078 respectively). The gene discussed is HOXA5; the disease is leukemia.