Prognostic implication of BAALC gene expression in adult acute myeloid leukemia.

Background: Recently various molecular markers and global gene expression profiling have been investigated to improve risk profile characterization of AML with normal cytogenetics. Our main objective is to investigate the prognostic impact of brain and acute leukemia, cytoplasmic (BAALC) expression in AML with normal karyotype.

Methods: BAALC expression was analysed using quantitative real time (QRT) PCR.