The prognostic values of ARHGAP9 expression in CN-AML, chemotherapy, and auto/allo-HSCT after the exclusion of FAB M3 from the AML cases were the same as those without the exclusion (Additional file 2: Figure S1), which indicated that the aforementioned prognosis results were not subject to the effect of FAB M3. Here, FANCB is linked to acute myeloid leukemia.