DIF for IgG and IgA was performed on paraffin-embedded tissue (PE-DIF) after proteinase digestion on histopathologically confirmed 15 pemphigus vulgaris (PV), three pemphigus foliaceous (PF), four bullous pemphigoid (BP), three dermatitis herpetiformis (DH), three subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SCPD), and one case each of linear IgA disease and pemphigoid gestationis (PG). Here, CD79A is linked to pemphigus foliaceus.