Behçet's disease (BD) is a multisystem inflammatory disease that effects patients along the historic silk road. Thus far, the patheogensis of the disease has proved elusive due to the complex genetic interactions and unknown environmental or viral triggering factors of the disease. In this paper, we seek to clarify the gentic factors of the disease while also uncovering other diseases of interest that present with a similar genotype as BD. To do this, we employ a computational functional genomics approach by leveraging the hierarchical similarity tool available in Geneweaver. Through our analysis, we were able to ascertain 7 BD consensus genes and 16 autoimmune diseases with genetic overlap with BD. The results of our study will inform further research into the patheogenesis of Behçet's Disease.
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