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Epidemiology of vitiligo and associated autoimmune diseases in Caucasian probands and their families.
Pigment cell research - 1 Jun 2003
Alkhateeb Asem, Fain Pamela R, Thody Anthony, Bennett Dorothy C, Spritz Richard A
Abstract excerpt
Generalized vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder characterized by acquired white patches of skin and overlying hair, the result of loss of melanocytes from involved areas. The most common disorder of pigmentation, vitiligo occurs with a frequency of 0.1-2.0% in various populations. Family clustering of cases is not uncommon, in a non-Mendelian pattern suggestive of multifactorial, polygenic inheritance. We surveyed...
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