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Table 4 Complement autoantibody patterns in clusters of 106 IC-MPGN/C3G patients who have full data-set for all of the autoantibodies

From: C4 nephritic factor in patients with immune-complex-mediated membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and C3-glomerulopathy

Autoantibody, positivity/ patient

Pattern of autoantibody positivity (number of patients affected)

cluster 1 (n = 46)

cluster 2 (n = 4)

cluster 3 (n = 20)

cluster 4 (n = 36)

Row total

0

None

17 (28%)

3 (5%)

13 (21%)

28 (46%)

61 (100%)

1

C3NeF (14)

18 (56%)

0 (0%)

6 (19%)

8 (25%)

32 (100%)

C4NeF (8)

anti-FH (3)

anti-C1q (4)

anti-FB (3)

2

anti-C1q + anti-FH (1)

6 (100%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

6 (100%)

anti-C1q + anti-C3 (1)

anti-C1q + C4NeF (1)

C3NeF + C4NeF (3)

> 2

anti-C1q + anti-FH + anti-FB (1)

5 (72%)

1 (14%)

1 (14%)

0 (0%)

7 (100%)

anti-C1q + anti-FH+ anti-C3 (1)

C3NeF + anti-FB + anti- C1q (1)

C3NeF + C4NEF + anti-Cq (2)

C3NeF + C4NeF + anti-C3 + anti-C1q (1)

C3NeF + C4NeF + anti-C3-anti-FB (1)

  1. P = 0.003, chi-square test
  2. Significance level was determined at a value of p < 0.05