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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of British Columbia, 835 west 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    M. J. Kristine Bunagan, Nusrat Banka & Jerry Shapiro

  2. The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, 240 East 38th Street, 11th Floor Administration, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    Jerry Shapiro

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Bunagan, M.J.K., Banka, N., Shapiro, J. (2014). Alopecia Areata. In: Mackay, I.R., Rose, N.R., Diamond, B., Davidson, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medical Immunology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84828-0_272

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