With a high prevalence of BD in Turkey, studies have reported various novel susceptibility SNPs with genome-wide significance for BD in Turkey, including rs7616215 in CCR1, rs2230801, rs10094579 in RIPK2, rs224127, rs1509966 in ADO-ZNF365-EGR2, rs2617170 in KLRC4, rs2121033 in LACC1, rs61752717 in MEFV, rs7203487, rs142105922, rs11117433 in IRF8, rs681343 in FUT2, rs913678 in CEBPB-PTPN1 (27, 28, 44). The gene discussed is EGR2; the disease is Behcet disease.