Further, we found that LMR was associated with Ann Arbor stage, IPI score, ECOG performance status, extranodal sites of disease, serum LDH level and B symptom in DLBCL, and with Ann Arbor stage, stage, IPS, WBC count, albumin level and hemoglobin level in Hodgkin's lymphoma. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.