Intriguingly, we also found a potential link between ribosomopathies and the genes in our NSCLP-associated loci, including RPS26, RAD54B and TAF1B. Mutations in RPS26 were reported to affect the functions of the proteins in ribosomal RNA processing in DBA patients and DBAs belong to a class of diseases called ribosomopathies30, 43. Here, RAD54B is linked to Diamond-Blackfan anemia.