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International Study to Find Vitiligo Genes

Do you have Vitiligo, or have you had it in the past? Or, does someone in your family have Vitiligo? If so, would you or they be willing to take part in a major research project on Vitiligo?

We have put together an international team of scientists to find the genes that cause Vitiligo. Thus far, we have found that at least 5 genes contribute to causing Vitiligo in different families; on chromosomes 1, 7, 8, 9, and 17. We don’t know what most of these genes are yet, and so we need additional patients and families to narrow our search. Our goal is to discover the causes of Vitiligo, and the other autoimmune diseases that are often associated with Vitiligo—thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, pernicious anemia, lupus, Addison disease, and adult-onset insulin-dependent diabetes. We are currently focusing both on families in which more than one person has vitiligo or these other diseases and on individual people with vitiligo but no affected relatives. Please give serious consideration to participating. Our long-term goal is to better understand the causes of Vitiligo and these related diseases, so as to develop better treatments and even approaches to prevention of these diseases altogether.

The first step in your participating is to fill out the attached questionnaire and mail or email it to us. We will then contact respondents that might be appropriate to the study to get further information and arrange for a small blood/salvia sample. We thank you in advance for your help, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Richard A. Spritz, M.D.
Professor and Director
Human Medical Genetics Program
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

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