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What causes vitiligo?

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Autoimmunity: Hi. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease wherein the immune system attacks the melanocytes, the skin cells that make color pigment. The skin areas wherein the melanocytes are destroyed have no pigment and are white.

Dr Cannon and another doctor agreed

Answered 1/17/2017

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