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In spite of significant advances in the frontline therapeutic approaches, approximately 50% of pAML patients show poor prognosis and relapse. Though drugs show positive response against the cancer cells initially, however, it becomes resistant in the long run of treatment, requiring the use of alternative drugs. Therefore, this study aimed to discover pAML-causing druggable molecular signatures highlighting their pathogenetic processes and alternative therapeutic agents. To address these issues, at first, we performed an integrated single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) profile analysis of two datasets with accession IDs GSE154109 and GSE235923, which revealed 6 pAML-related key cell types (Erythroid cells, GdT-cells, Naive B-cells, Naive CD4 T-cells, Non-Classical Monocytes, and T-regs) and 198 common differentially expressed genes (cDEGs) between pAML and healthy groups. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) analysis yielded top-ranked eight cDEGs (JUN, MDM2, FOS, SOD2, FBXW7, CHD3, MCL1, and MAP2K1) as common key genes (cKGs) across the key cell types. Disease-cKGs enrichment analysis further confirmed the relevance of these genes to pAML and other leukemic diseases. Regulatory network analysis identified top four transcription factors (FOXC1, GATA2, RELA, and TP53) and three microRNAs (hsa-let-7a-5p, hsa-let-7e-5p, hsa-miR-15a-5p) that regulate these cKGs. Gene ontology (GO) terms and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analysis results reflected their potential roles in pAML pathogenesis. Pathway perturbation analysis through gene-set enrichment analysis (GSEA) tool identified significantly perturbed pathways, highlighting how they are altered in pAML environment and how the cKGs are linked in the process. 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