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Myelodysplastic Syndromes What is MDS? Myelodysplastic syndrome is a disease that affects the production of all three major types of human blood cells. Patients with MDS have a lack of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The disorder occurs because the blood cells do not develop into mature cells, but rather stay in an immature stage within the bone marrow. DEFINITION MDS refers to a heterogeneous group of acquired bone marrow disorders characterized by dysplastic growth of hematopoietic progenitors, a hypercellular bone marrow with peripheral cytopenia, a propensity to p