Regarding the present study, one of common candidate genes in SSC1 (305.1–306 Mb) that associated with HCT and RBC, was NUP214. The gene is a member of the FG-repeat-containing nucleoporins and known to be fused with the DEK gene on chromosome 6 in a t(6,9)-translocation associated with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome [42]. Here, DEK is linked to myelodysplastic syndrome.