NHGRI Press Releases http://www.genome.gov/10000475 Press Releases from the National Human Genome Research Institute en-us Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:57:01 EST Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.com <link>http://www.genome.gov/27552099</link> <guid>http://www.genome.gov/27552099</guid> <description><rss3>Researchers have identified four new regions on the human genome associated with Behcet's disease, a painful and potentially dangerous condition found predominantly in people with ancestors along the Silk Road. For nearly 2,000 years, traders used this 4,000-mile network linking the Far East with Europe to exchange goods, culture and, in the case of the Silk Road disease, genes. National Institutes of Health researchers and their Turkish and Japanese collaborators published their findings in the Jan. 6, 2013, advance online issue of <em>Nature Genetics</em>.</rss3><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NhgriPressReleases?a=-i5iACzFb_A:JBhKNZGV4wA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NhgriPressReleases?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NhgriPressReleases?a=-i5iACzFb_A:JBhKNZGV4wA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/NhgriPressReleases?i=-i5iACzFb_A:JBhKNZGV4wA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NhgriPressReleases/~4/-i5iACzFb_A" height="1" width="1"/></description> <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:00:00 EST</pubDate> </item> </channel> </rss>