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Human genome search in celiac disease using gliadin cDNA as probe.
Journal of molecular biology - 28 Jul 2000
Kumar R, Lumsden A, Ciclitira P J, Ellis H J, Laurie G W
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease is a wheat gliadin-promoted disorder that displays a complex genetic susceptibility associated with HLA-DQ2, and one or more unknown factor(s), possibly gliadin-like. The presence of mammalian proteins with partial gliadin similarity was suggested by transglutaminase-independent multi-tissue reactivity of gliadin-immunopurified antibodies from celiac patients. No non-plant sequence, however, was...
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