Article
Complement component C4 deficiencies and gene alterations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Feb 1993
Fan Q, Uring-Lambert B, Weill B, Gautreau C, Menkes C J, Delpech M
Abstract excerpt
Deficiency of complement component C4 is considered playing a role in the genetic predisposition for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The purpose of this study was to characterize the genomic alterations of the C4 and CYP21 genes in 40 caucasoid patients with SLE by C4 allotyping and by RFLP a...
Topics
- Alleles
- Complement C4
- Gene Conversion
- Gene Deletion
- Humans
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
- Multigene Family
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Steroid 21-Hydroxylase
