Complement allotypes in Japanese patients with pemphigus and bullous pemphigoid.

doi:10.1159/000247770

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Complement allotypes in Japanese patients with pemphigus and bullous pemphigoid.

Dermatologica - 1 Jan 1991

Nishimukai H, Shiraishi S, Shirakata Y, Sayama K, Shinomiya T, Miki Y

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The allotypes of C6, C7, factor B (BF) and factor I (IF) of the human complement system were studied in 11 Japanese patients with pemphigus (5 with pemphigus vulgaris and 6 with pemphigus foliaceus) and 17 with bullous pemphigoid (BP) to investigate the genetic background of these diseases. The a...

Topics

Alleles
Complement System Proteins
Humans
Immunoblotting
Isoelectric Focusing
Japan
Pemphigoid, Bullous
Pemphigus
Phenotype

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