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A research project on alopecia turned up the surprising result that the disease is related, not to other autoimmune skin diseases like psoriasis and vitiligo, but to RA, type 1 diabetes and celiac.
Read the N.Y. times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28conversation.html?src=me&ref=general
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