Taken together these points, it seems that the origin of the name for the mouse homologue AKT of the viral v-akt gene product could be at least interpreted as “a serine/threonine protein kinase encoded by the oncogene in the transforming retrovirus isolated from the thymoma cell line AKT-8, which is derived from the Stock A Strain k AKR mouse originally inbred in the laboratory of Dr. C. P. Rhoads by K. B. Rhoads at the Rockefeller Institute.” Same interpretation applies to the human AKT kinases and genes. Here, AKT1 is linked to thymoma.