For patients with generalized vitiligo, no patients had a good outcome despite multiple surgeries.

Centrofacial vitiligo was the most common type and is thought to comprise the typical facial involvement of generalized vitiligo.

Mice that rejected the tumor did not develop generalized vitiligo, indicating that protective immunity can be achieved in the absence of widespread autoimmune aggression.

We conducted a genome-wide association study of generalized vitiligo in the Chinese Han population by genotyping 1,117 cases and 1,429 controls.