More specifically, leukemia antigen-directed T-cell responses have been suggested to be increased when the leukemia burden is minimal due to the investigation that immunocompetent mice transplanted with MLL/AF9-leukemia showed spontaneous antigen-specific T-cell response when a minimum number of leukemia initiating cells were injected, whereas T-cell immunity was exhausted in mice with advanced leukemia [49]. This evidence concerns the gene MLLT3 and leukemia.