The clinical characteristics of the NTUH AML patients were listed in Additional file 1: Table S1 Patients with higher HOXB-AS3 expression were older and had higher frequencies of mutated NPM1/wild FLT3-ITD, MLL-PTD, and RUNX1 mutations, but lower frequency of CEBPAɑ double mutations than patients with lower expression. The gene discussed is FLT3; the disease is acute myeloid leukemia.