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Limited role of HLA DQ2/8 genotyping in diagnosing coeliac disease.
Scottish medical journal - 1 Feb 2017
Paul Siba P, Hoghton Matthew, Sandhu Bhupinder
Abstract excerpt
The European guidelines for diagnosing coeliac disease in children were revised in 2012. These recommend that in symptomatic children, a diagnosis of coeliac disease can be made without small-bowel biopsies provided their anti-tissue transglutaminase (anti-tTG) titre is >10 times of upper-limit-of-normal (>10×ULN) and anti-endomysial antibody is positive. In order to firm up the diagnosis in these children with...
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