It is of specific interest in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) because of the high-frequency occurrence of AML-associated mutations and variants in CCDC26 gene (Duployez et al., 2018; Izadifard et al., 2018; Kuhn et al., 2012; Radtke et al., 2009). Here, CCDC26 is linked to acute myeloid leukemia.