And five genes (CEACAM3, ITGAM, ADAM8, ITGB2 and SH3BP5) were selected to enter the univariate and multivariate survival analyses with STK10 to prove that whether high STK10 expression is an independent prognostic indicator in AML.As shown in Additional file 6, high level expression of ITGAM, ITGB2 and STK10 own statistical significances (P < 0.05) in the univariate analysis. Here, ADAM8 is linked to acute myeloid leukemia.