Absence of autoanti-Jk3 as a component of anti-dl.

Thirty-five examples of anti-dl, autoantibodies initially reacting with all red blood cells against which they were tested, were examined prior to, and following adsorption with Jk(a-b-) red blood cells. None of them was found to contain autoanti-Jk3. One example of autoanti-Jka was identified in an adsorbed eluate. The antibody had been produced by a pregnant Caucasian, in whom laboratory and clinical evaluation showed that the auto-antibody was benign in vivo.