HEREDITARY C2 DEFICIENCY ASSOCIATED WITH IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Immunology & Cell Biology
- Vol. 56 (1), 81-98
- https://doi.org/10.1038/icb.1978.9
Abstract
A patient presenting with a syndrome probably due to immune complex deposition wits investigated and found to possess an inherited C2 complement deficiency. Family studies indicated that the deficiency was transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. HLA typing for the HLA-A and HLA-B specificities and HLA-D specificities indicated a close linkage between the HLA and C2 genes, as has been described elsewhere. The HLA-A and B locus specificities HLA-AW25 and HLA-B18 were coded for by each of the two chromosomes carrying the C2°gene. However, the two chromosomes differed at the HLA-D locus, as one coded for HLA-DW2 whilst the other did not. This case, therefore, provides a unique haplotype and may be of importance in mapping the C2° locus, as it suggests that the gene order on chromosome 6 is HLA-D, C2°, HLA-B, HLA-A. Extensive complement component assays indicated that utilization of complement in the patient was occurring via the alternate complement pathway. It is suggested that, as a result of the C2 deficiency, infections with viruses and other agents could lead to an immune complex disease due to an impaired capacity to effectively eliminate circulating complexes.Keywords
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