Overexpressing BCR–ABL and NUP98–HOXA9 in Evi1-IRES-GFP knock-in mice to model CML in blast crisis (CML-BC), in which Evi1-high cells turned to be a major population as opposed to a minor population in CML-CP models, showed that Evi1-high CML-BC cells have a greater potential to recapitulate the disease and appear resistant to TKIs. The gene discussed is MECOM; the disease is chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive.