How do people with eye color suffer from skin diseases?

A study led by the University of Colorado School of Medicine revealed that eye color could be a warning indicator of the risk of skin diseases.

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Accordingly, people with blue eyes are less prone to vitiligo - a disease that causes skin and hair to become white, brown eyes less prone to melanoma - one of the most dangerous diseases of skin cancer.

People with brown eyes are less likely to develop melanoma

The conclusion was drawn when researchers studied 3,000 people with European leukemia who did not speak Spanish, and identified 13 new genes that could lead to the disease. Among patients with vitiligo, about 27% have blue / gray eyes, 43% have brown or brown eyes and 30% have green or chestnut eyes.

This is different from 52% of non-Hispanic non-Hispanic Americans with blue / gray eyes, 22% with green / chestnut eyes, and 27% with brown or brown eyes.

It is known that vitiligo is an autoimmune disease in which the patient's immune system attacks its own normal pigment cells. More dangerous, the disease also leads to a higher risk of other autoimmune diseases such as thyroid disease, type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. This means that once scientists discover the gene that leads to vitiligo, it is possible to detect genetic factors that lead to a range of other autoimmune diseases.