"For higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients EVI1-high patients have poorer survival rate compared with EVI1-low patients. Moreover EVI1-high was an adverse prognostic marker for MDS with excess blasts subtype. Taken together EVI1 overexpression is a poor prognostic marker for higher-risk MDS group and could be included in risk stratification for MDS patients."xsd:string