Interestingly, earlier we reported similar findings in the context of ovarian cancer: MBL deficiency was associated with the disease itself but in parallel, MBL serum levels in patients (before surgery) were significantly higher than in controls which reflected mainly the difference between A/A homozygous women17, as also we report here for persons suffering from AML (Fig. 2G). Here, MBL2 is linked to ovarian carcinoma.