As shown in Table 1 and Additional file 1: Table S2, 74 AML patients (8.51%) carried the DNMT3A R882 mutations, among which 54 cases were positive for the R882H mutation, 18 cases with the R882C mutation, and 2 cases with the R882P (DNMT3A c.2645G > C) mutation. This evidence concerns the gene DNMT3A and acute myeloid leukemia.