Numerous non-coding RNAs, such as the three lncRNA transcripts, TUG1 (Wang X. et al., 2018a; Luo et al., 2018), LINC00899 (Wang Y. et al., 2018b), and PANDAR (Yang et al., 2018), have been found to be closely related to cell cycle dynamics and apoptosis in AML. This evidence concerns the gene TUG1 and acute myeloid leukemia.