While peripheral blood was negative for leukemia, next-generation sequencing of a lymph node revealed at least eight novel mutations (AXIN1, R712Q, BARD1 R749K, CTNNB1 I315V, CUX1 P102T, DNMT3A S199R, FGFR2 S431L, LRP1B Y2560C and STAG2 I771M). Here, STAG2 is linked to leukemia.