PVT1 and acute lymphoblastic leukemia: By comparing transcripts correlated with PVT1 expression across myeloid and B cell malignancies (adult and pediatric AML, pediatric ALL and DLBCL, data available through the cBioPortal database, https://www.cbioportal.org) we identified a core of 169 common genes, showing a positive or negative correlation with PVT1 (Spearman q ≤ 0.05, Additional file 1).