Another gene, the NMYC and STAT interactor (NMI), which interacts with NMYC, MYC, MAX, FOS, other transcription factors (Zhu et al, 1999) and BRCA1 (Li et al, 2002), is overexpressed in human leukaemias and other cancers (Bao and Zervos, 1996). The gene discussed is MYC; the disease is cancer.