BAALC and acute myeloid leukemia: The up-regulation of BAALC was reported with survivability reduction.17 In another study, high level of BAALC in pediatric AML patients was associated with lower overall survival rate.18 High expression of WT-1 was also shown in a study on Iranian AML patients.19 However, no study was conducted to evaluate these genes expression in AML at pre- and post-treatment phases.