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Eighty laboratories have contributed data on class III gene products to the Ninth International Histocompatibility Workshop. Therefore, it can be concluded that these investigations of complement markers in studies on population genetics and disease associations reflect the increasing importance of the class III loci of the major histocompatibility complex. The study of the highly polymorphic C4 loci, in particular, poses a number of problems, only some of which can be addressed in this report. For a more detailed discussion the reader may consult some recent publications [6, 10, 12, 14]. The results of the association studies of C2, BF, C4A, and C4B in the workshop diseases will be found in the disease reports in this volume.
This work was supported in part by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Ri 164/16-1 and Ma 848/1
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Rittner, C., Mauff, G. (1984). C4 Polymorphism. In: Albert, E.D., et al. Histocompatibility Testing 1984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69770-8_112
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