Article
The Immunogenetics of Behcet's Disease.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2022
Yılmaz Mustafa Anıl, Türsen Ümit
Abstract excerpt
Behcet's disease (BD) is an autoimmune disorder that affects the blood vessels and thus could entangle virtually every organ of the body. Oral ulceration, genital aphthous lesions, and ocular inflammation are the main manifestations of the disease that tend to have a chronic, relapsing-remitting course. The disease comes from an association between environmental and genetic backgrounds. The clustering of cases in...
Topics
- Behcet Syndrome
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Immunogenetics
- Polymorphism, Genetic
