Abstract
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is caused by a heterogeneous group of disorders in hematopoietic stem cells characterized by dysplastic changes in the bone marrow and ineffective hematopoiesis. The consequences of this impaired hematopoiesis are peripheral blood cytopenias, that may involve all three segments of the blood: erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets. Previous results of microar…