Rudner and colleagues conducted iterative allotransplantation (transplantation to a genetically non-identical recipient of the same species) of zebrafish T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) to select for aggressive disease, and observed that CNAs in serially passaged T-ALL encompassed oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes known to be crucial for human T-ALL progression, such as notch, hes1 and phf6 (Rudner et al., 2011). This evidence concerns the gene PHF6 and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.