Furthermore, as miR-22 is globally downregulated in all major types of AML (Fig. 1b), we also investigated the role of miR-22 in colony formation induced by other oncogenic fusion genes, including MLL-AF10/t(10;11), PML-RARA/t(15;17) and AML1-ETO9a/t(8;21) (ref. 19). The gene discussed is RARA; the disease is acute myeloid leukemia.