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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Invest Dermatol. 2011 Feb 17;131(6):1308–1312. doi: 10.1038/jid.2011.12

Table 1.

Summary description of the patients with generalized vitiligo used in this study

Study cohort No. of patients Generalized vitiligo age of onset Female (%) Occurrence of other autoimmune diseases (%)1
Mean SD
Genome-wide scan 1,339 24.06 16.40 70.20 31.29
Replication cohort 677 25.23 15.73 65.29 31.31
1

Includes autoimmune thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, adult-onset autoimmune diabetes, pernicious anemia, Addison’s disease, and systemic lupus erythematosus, which are the principal autoimmune diseases that are epidemiologically associated with generalized vitiligo (Alkhateeb et al., 2003; Laberge et al., 2005).