Several studies have indicated that CASC15 expression was associated with different human diseases, including neuroblastoma (Russell et al., 2015), hepatocellular carcinoma (He, Zhang, et al., 2017), acute leukemia (Fernando et al., 2017), and gastric cancer (Yao et al., 2017; Yuan et al., 2012). The gene discussed is CASC15; the disease is acute leukemia.