So far, several lncRNAs, such as LINC00265, LINC00152, ANRIL, H19 and NEAT1, have been explored in AML (Ma et al., 2018; Sun et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2018; Zhang and Tao, 2019; Zhao et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene CDKN2B-AS1 and acute myeloid leukemia.