Second, two peak genetic variants associated with the expression of MTND5 and MTND6 in whole blood (rs10172506 and rs7558127 respectively) are in strong LD with rs10200159, which has been associated with Vitiligo (Jin et al., 2016), a disease that is driven by the functional loss of melanocytes in the skin which leads to a loss of pigmentation. Here, MT-ND6 is linked to vitiligo.