The frequency of five MC1R coding region SNPs: Arg67Gln (G200A), Val92Met (G274A), Ile120Thr (T359C), Arg160Arg (C478A), and Gln163Arg (A488G) in Korean vitiligo patients and normal controls did not reach statistical significance (Na et al., 2003). This evidence concerns the gene MC1R and vitiligo.