Other findings, reporting the frequent down-regulation of BASP1 expression in ALL (acute lymphocytic leukaemia) and CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukaemia) (Yeoh et al. 2002; Wang et al. 2004), as well as apoptosis-induced cleavage of BASP1 and its subsequent translocation to the cytoplasm (Ohsawa et al. 2008), again highlight the importance of BASP1 in transcription regulation. Here, BASP1 is linked to acute lymphoblastic leukemia.