Furthermore, to demonstrate the importance of hub genes, we screened a series of genes, including TET2, DNMT3A, ASXL1, EZH2, SF3B1, SRSF2, U2AF1, ZRSR2, RUNX1, TP53, STAG2, NRAS, CBL, NF1, which had been shown to influence the procedure of MDS, for correlation analysis. Here, U2AF1 is linked to myelodysplastic syndrome.