Of the 13 genes, ALAS2, BCL2L1, DCAF12, SLC4A1 TMOD1 and TRIM58 (FDR > 0.059 with the fold-change varied from 1.39 to 1.63, see Additional files 7 and 8) were in common with the 9 MDS genes. The gene discussed is DCAF12; the disease is myelodysplastic syndrome.