MAML2 and neoplasm: Moreover, researchers speculated that since both genes, namely YAP1 and MAML2 are located in chromosome 11p and both YAP1-MAML2 and MAML2-YAP1 fusions often occur simultaneously in the same tumor, fusions related to YAP1 and MAML2 reflect an intrachromosomal inversion [14].