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The Smyth line (SL) of chicken is the only animal model that spontaneously and predictably develops all clinical and biological manifestations of autoimmune vitiligo. In SL vitiligo (SLV), destruction of epidermal melanocytes in growing feathers (GFs) involves a melanocyte-specific, Th1-mediated cellular immune response. Smyth chickens may also exhibit uveitis and vision impairment. Previous studies established a strong association between SLV and vision impairment, including similar pathology in affected eyes and GFs. To determine the presence, types, and activities of choroid infiltrating mononuclear cells, we collected eyes before, near onset, and during active SLV from sighted, partially blind, and blind SL chickens. All SL chickens with vision impairment had SLV. Immunohistochemistry and quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR analyses revealed mononuclear cell and cytokine expression profiles in the autoimmune destruction of melanocytes in choroids that are identical to those described in GF, demonstrating the systemic nature of autoimmunity against melanocytes in SLV. In addition, we observed aberrant melanogenesis in SL eyes. The immunopathogenesis in SL vision impairment resembles human vitiligo-associated ocular diseases, especially Vogt\u2013Koyanagi\u2013Harada syndrome and sympathetic ophthalmia. 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