On the other hand, associations of these IL23R and STAT4 polymorphisms with systemic autoimmune diseases involving uveitis, such as Behçet’s disease, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease or sarcoidosis, have been described in Asian populations [21,22,26,27,41,42,43,44] but not in Europeans. Here, STAT4 is linked to uveitis.