Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the MDS patients.

UPN	Diagnosis	age	R-IPSS	Cytogenetic	serum ferritin
1	MDS-MLD	80	low	normal	2400
2	MDS-MLD	79	int	normal	1460
3	MDS-MLD	67	low	normal	280
4	MDS-MLD	78	int	trisomy 8	2800
5	MDS-MLD	80	low	normal	5220
6	MDS-MLD	79	low	normal	4870
7	MDS-MLD	69	int	del(7q)	890
8	MDS-EB-2	79	very high	del(7q)	4800
9	MDS-EB-2	84	very high	normal	NA
10	MDS-EB-1	74	high	del(20q)	1450
11	MDS-EB-1	81	int	normal	1090
12	MDS-EB-1	76	NA	NA	12800
13	MDS-EB-1	77	high	normal	2760
14	MDS-EB-1	77	int	normal	1700
15	MDS-EB-1	76	Int	normal	6670
16	MDS-SLD	80	low	normal	6520
17	MDS-SLD	85	low	normal	2400
18	MDS-SLD	74	low	normal	3380
19	MDS-SLD	61	int	del(7q)	NA
20	MDS-SLD	65	low	normal	2230
21	MDS-SLD	86	low	normal	7400
22	MDS-SLD	75	int	trisomy 8	1800
23	MDS-SLD	77	int	normal	4700
24	MDS-SLD	77	int	−7	NA
25	MDS-SLD	67	NA	NA	5240
26	MDS-SLD	75	low	normal	7400
27	MDS-SLD	73	very low	del(11q)	1700
28	MDS-SLD	80	low	normal	4000
29	MDS-SLD	83	NA	NA	6440
30	MDS-SLD	69	low	normal	2100
31	MDS-SLD	72	low	normal	1420
32	MDS-SLD	68	NA	NA	2270
33	MDS-SLD	68	verylow	normal	1380
34	del(5q)	57	very low	del(5q)	3670
35	MDS-SLD	73	low	normal	1820
36	MDS-SLD	84	NA	NA	2770
37	MDS-EB-1	82	high	normal	1889
38	MDS-EB-2	65	Very high	complex	3880