Lower BAK1 expression associated with the G allele of rs210134 in lymphoblastoid cell lines. We assessed the correlation between normalized BAK1 gene expression and the count of the G allele of rs210134 using Spearman rank correlation and publicly available Sentrix Human-6 Expression BeadChips (Illumina) data on 156 lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from healthy female twins as part of the MuTHER project¹⁷  as of December 15, 2008 (GENEVAR project). The G allele is associated with the elevated risk of CLL.