GATA2 and myelodysplastic syndrome: In 2011, four different studies described germline heterozygous GATA2 mutations in a total of 44 patients with various syndromes; monocytopenia and mycobacterial infection (MonoMAC) syndrome (Hsu et al., 2011), monocyte, B cell, NK cell and dendritic cell deficiencies (DCML) (Dickinson et al., 2011), Emberger Syndrome, which is characterized by primary lymphedema with a predisposition to AML (Ostergaard et al., 2011) and familial MDS/AML predisposition (Hahn et al., 2011).