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The purpose of this study was to examine whether the 16 reported susceptible loci in European-derived whites were associated with vitiligo in the Chinese Han population. Imputation was performed using our previous GWAS dataset by IMPUTE v2.2.2. The 16 imputed top single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with suggestive signals, together with the reported SNPs, were genotyped in a total of 2581 patients and 2579 controls by the Sequenom MassARRAY system. PLINK 2.0 software was used to perform association analysis. The dbSNP database, HaploReg, and eQTL data were adopted to annotate the biological function of the SNPs. Finally, four SNPs from three loci were significantly associated with vitiligo, including rs3747517 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 1.29 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u20133<\/jats:sup>, OR = 0.87) in 2q24.2, rs4807000 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 7.78 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u201324<\/jats:sup>, OR = 0.66) and rs6510827 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 3.65 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u20135<\/jats:sup>, OR = 1.19) in 19p13.3, and rs4822024 (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 6.37 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>\u201310<\/jats:sup>, OR = 0.67) in 22q13.2. According to the dbSNP database, rs3747517 is a missense variant of <jats:italic>IFIH1<\/jats:italic>, rs4807000 and rs6510827 are located in <jats:italic>TICAM1<\/jats:italic>, and rs4822024 is located 6 kb upstream of <jats:italic>TEF<\/jats:italic>. Further bioinformatics analysis by HaploReg and eQTL found that rs4807000, rs6510827, and rs4822024 are involved in regulating gene expression. Our study revealed the strong association of 2q24.2 (rs3747517), 19p13.3 (rs4807000, rs6510827), and 22q13.2 (rs4822024) with the risk of vitiligo in the Chinese Han population, which implicates common factors for vitiligo across different ethnicities, and helps expand the understanding of the genetic basis of this disease.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fgene.2020.542275","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,3]],"date-time":"2020-12-03T06:52:39Z","timestamp":1606978359000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Validation of Susceptibility Loci for Vitiligo Identified by GWAS in the Chinese Han Population"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Lu","family":"Cheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xian-Fa","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xin-Ying","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiao-Dong","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Meng-Wei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fu-Sheng","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Pan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng-Li","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1884","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jid.2018.02.025","article-title":"Genome-wide association of PVT1 with vitiligo.","volume":"138","author":"Ben","year":"2018","journal-title":"J. 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