: Alopecia areata (AA) is a tissue-specific immune-mediated disorder that affects hair follicles and the nail apparatus. Due to the collapse of hair follicle immune privilege in AA, hair loss ranges in severity from small, localized patches on the scalp to the loss of entire body hair. Although AA is of uncertain etiology, the disease has a common genetic basis with a number of other autoimmune diseases.
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