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In the present study, we used the Human Methylation 850K BeadChip platform to detect DNA methylation changes in the vitiligo melanocytes. We then integrated the results with the transcriptome data of vitiligo melanocytes and lesions to analyse the correlation between differentially methylated levels and differentially expressed genes. The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between methylation levels and differentially expressed genes. Subsequently, we enriched GO and KEGG based on methylated differentially expressed genes (MDEGs) using R package ClusterProfiler, and the results were closely related to the pathogenesis of vitiligo. In addition, we also constructed a PPI network of MDEGs and excavated three important functional epigenetic modules, involving a total of 12 (BCL2L1, CDK1, ECT2, HELLS, HSP90AA1, KIF23, MC1R, MLANA, PBK, PTGS2, SOX10, and TYRP1) genes. 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