A unique chicken breed is helping researchers better understand vitiligo, an autoimmune disease that affects 1 to 2% of the world’s population. In vitiligo (pronounced vit-ih-LIE-go) the immune system ...
Gisela Erf, professor of immunology, holds a Smyth line rooster with vitiligo. The line, paired with its parental Brown line, has helped Erf and others with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment ...