Natural killer (NK) cells, the large granular lymphocytes differentiated from the common
lymphoid progenitors, were discovered in early 1970's. They are members of innate …

Behçet's disease is a systemic vasculitis frequently associated with intraocular inflammation.
Recent findings identified independent clinical clusters in Behçet's disease, each involving …

Ankylosing spondylitis is a common, highly heritable inflammatory arthritis affecting primarily
the spine and pelvis. In addition to HLA-B* 27 alleles, 12 loci have previously been identified …

Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic, relapsing, inflammatory multisystem disease of unknown
etiology. Oral ulcers, genital ulcers, cutaneous lesions, and ocular and articular involvement …

Individuals with Behçet's disease suffer from episodic inflammation often affecting the
orogenital mucosa, skin and eyes. To discover new susceptibility loci for Behçet's disease …

Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory disease with a chronic, relapsing-remitting
course of unknown etiology hallmarked predominantly by mucocutaneous lesions and …

Although the histological changes seen in psoriasis have long been well characterized, the
underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms have only begun to be elucidated over the …

Complex disease genetics has been revolutionised in recent years by the advent of genome-
wide association (GWA) studies. The chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), Crohn's …

Behçet's disease is a genetically complex disease of unknown etiology characterized by
recurrent inflammatory attacks affecting the orogenital mucosa, eyes and skin. We performed …

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are complex, multifactorial disorders that comprise
Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Genome-wide association studies have …