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    Quality of Life in Patients with Alopecia Areata: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study

    December 2015 in “ Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology ”
    Slavenka Janković, Jelena Perić, Nataša Maksimović … Ljiljana Medenica
    Studysummary This study found that alopecia areata negatively affects patients' quality of life, though less severely than psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and onychomycosis.
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    5. Genomewide Scan for Linkage Reveals Evidence of Several Susceptibility Loci for Alopecia Areata The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2007
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