We moreover performed co-stainings of ITIH3 and C5b-9 as well as CD56 in muscle biopsy specimens derived from patients with DNA polymerase gamma deficiency (mitochondriopathy), rheumatoid arthritis and axonal polyneuropathy (neurogenic muscular atrophy), polymyalgia rheumatica (type 2B atrophy), and HCs (Suppl. The gene discussed is ITIH3; the disease is rheumatoid arthritis.