3.5 Relationship between EVI1 expression and other patient characteristics and molecular abnormalities at diagnosis
As shown in Table 1, low platelet count, high blast percentage in bone marrow and MLL rearrangement were significantly related to low EVI1 expression (all P <0.05), and TEL-AML1 fusion gene was significantly related to high EVI1 expression (P<0.05). Other parameters including age, sex, WBC count, hemoglobin, high-hyperdiploidy, E2A-PBX1 fusion gene, immunophenotypic subtype at diagnosis and adverse cytogenetic risk feature (include MLL rearrangement, E2A-PBX1 fusion gene, or hypodiploidy) had no association with EVI1 expression (all P >0.05).