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<table class="MsoNormalTable" cellpadding="0" width="459" border="0" style="MARGIN: auto auto auto 78.65pt; WIDTH: 344.2pt; mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;"><tbody><tr style="HEIGHT: 42pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; PADDING-RIGHT: 7.5pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 7.5pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 7.5pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; PADDING-TOP: 7.5pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 42pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center;"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">lease Take Part in an International<br/>Study to Find Vitiligo Genes</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><p></p></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 276.75pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="DISPLAY: none; mso-hide: all;"><p></p></span></font></span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" cellpadding="0" width="109%" border="0" style="MARGIN: auto auto auto -21.25pt; WIDTH: 109.4%; mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt;"><tbody><tr style="HEIGHT: 409.3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ece9d8; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.75pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 0.75pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; PADDING-TOP: 0.75pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ece9d8; HEIGHT: 409.3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent;"><p><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">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? <p></p></font></span></b></p><p><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial Unicode MS">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t know what most of these genes are yet, and so we need additional patients and families to narrow our search.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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, <place wst="on">Addison</place> disease, and adult-onset insulin-dependent diabetes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our long-term goal is to better understand the causes of Vitiligo and these related diseases, so as to <span style="COLOR: black;">develop better treatments and even approaches to prevention of these diseases altogether.<p></p></span></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="MARGIN: auto 36pt auto 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="COLOR: black;"><font face="Arial">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 saliva (spit) sample or, occasionally, a small blood sample. We thank you in advance for your help, and we look forward to hearing from you."</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 36pt 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman">Richard A. Spritz, M.D.<br/>rofessor and <placename wst="on">Director</placename><br/><placename wst="on">Human</placename>
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