The last two millennias echo-catastrophes are the driving forces for the potential genetic advantage mechanisms in celiac disease.

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Many human genes have adapted to the constant threat of exposure to changing environmental conditions. Balancing selection is the result of an initial stage of positive selection that favors the spread in a population of a new allele until selection opposes its fixation and balanced situation is established. It is suggested that the disadvantageous celiac patients survived the last two millennias...

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