The invention relates to members of the Fc receptor homolog (FcRH)
subfamily, as well as fragments and variants thereof. Each FcRH is a Type
I transmembrane receptor, preferably, comprises an extracellular region,
a transmembrane region, and a cytoplasmic region. The cytoplasmic region
preferably comprises one or more immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory
or activation motifs ("ITIMs" or "ITAMs). The invention provides
polypeptides, nucleic acids, vectors, expression systems, and antibodies
and antibody fragments related to the FcRHs as well as uses thereof. Such
uses include uses in the diagnosis and treatment of a malignancy of
hematopoietic cell lineage or an inflammatory or autoimmune disease in a
subject and in the modulation of a humoral immune response in a subject.