Consistent with our findings, in human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, TAL1 was overexpressed, and TAL1-mediated up-regulation of miR-223 promotes the malignant phenotype through repression of the FBXW7 tumor suppressor; TAL1 forms a positive interconnected autoregulatory loop with GATA3 and RUNX1 and activates the MYB oncogene to exert oncogenic function [44]. Here, TAL1 is linked to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.