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Ninety-five (85%) of the 112 Japanese patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were negative for the complement receptor 1 (CR1) activities on erythrocytes, while 770 (91%) of the 847 normal subjects were positive for CR1, as determined by immune-adherence hemagglutination. Pedigree analyses of the normal population suggested that the phenotype of negative CR1 was determined by a autosomal recessive gene. Among 112 SLE patients, 73 (65%) showed persistently negative CR1 during remission for over 26 months of follow-up, although the CR1 levels did vary with the disease activity in 22 SLE patients. These results show that the relative risk for developing SLE in persons with negative CR1 is 19. CR1 activity appears to be an important genetic factor related the development of SLE.
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Kawaguchi, T., Yokota, E., Niho, Y. et al. Complement receptor 1 (CR1) on erythrocytes of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Jap J Human Genet 33, 451–460 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01897786
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