HMGCR and cancer: However, we could not identify common cytogenetic abnormalities in group 2 patients (Table 1) and querying Oncomine (Rhodes et al., 2004) with the search terms: Gene: “HMGCR” and Cancer Type: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia did not reveal any correlation of aggressive prognostic markers (i.e. unmutated IGVH genes or 11q and 17 deletions) with HMGCR expression.