The 350 peaks were associated with 451 protein-coding genes, including key MLL-AF9 target genes, previously identified SALL4-bound genes, and important leukemia-related genes, such as Cebpα, Id2, Elf1, Evl, Flt3, Meis1, Nf1, Tal1, Tcf7l1, Gata6, Sox12, Bahcc1, Nkx2-3 [12, 17, 41–44], Hox factors Hoxa9, Hoxa10, Hoxa11, Hoxa13, Notch ligand Jag2, and Wnt/β-catenin signaling regulator Wnt7b (Fig. 6a and see Additional file 2 for a full list). Here, GATA6 is linked to leukemia.