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Human leukocyte antigen genetics and clinical features of self-treated patients on a gluten-free diet.
Journal of clinical gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2000
Coburn John A, Vande Voort Jennifer L, Lahr Brian D, Van Dyke Carol T, Kroning Cynthia M, Wu Tsung-Teh, Gandhi Manish J, Murray Joseph A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Increasingly, people start a gluten-free diet (GFD) without a clear celiac disease (CD) diagnosis. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotyping is useful in ruling out CD in patients with equivocal results of serologic testing or small-bowel biopsy (SBB), but its utility and the clinical features of patients on self-treated GFD (ST-GFD) are largely unknown. METHODS: Retrospective study of single...
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