BCR-ABL 1 acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has recently been listed in the 2016 revised World Health Organization (WHO) classification of myeloid malignancies as a provisional entity. 1 BCR-ABL 1 AML comprises a group of de novo AML in patients without evidence of an underlying chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and without cooccurring aberrations such as CEBPA, NPM1, inv(16), and inv(3) that would lead to the classification as "AML with recurrent genetic aberrations." Although there is some overlap between BCR-ABL 1 AML, myeloid CML blast crisis, and BCR-ABL 1 mixed phenotype acute leukemia, no definite criteria have yet been defined to distinguish among these entities. However, a loss of IKZF1 and CDKN2A as well as cryptic deletions in IGH and TRG genes have recently been reported in BCR-ABL 1 AML and seem to be absent in myeloid blast crisis of CML. Therefore, these additional molecular markers may be helpful for differential diagnosis in clinically difficult situations. 2