DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Cytologically confirmed myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) Increased blasts (i.e., greater than 1 to 30% peripheral blood blasts and/or 5 to 30% bone marrow blasts) AND International Prognostic Score intermediate 1, intermediate 2, or high risk Refractory anemia with excess blasts OR Refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation (no presence of auer rods as sole criteria) OR Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia Greater than 1% blasts in the peripheral blood and/or at least 5% blasts in the bone marrow OR MDS related acute myeloid leukemia Arising after documented MDS of at least 60 days Absolute peripheral blast count no greater than 5,000/mm3 Must have genotypically HLA identical sibling donor Must also be enrolled on SWOG-S9910 and SWOG-9007