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Celiac disease is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten-containing grains (including wheat, rye, and barley) in genetically susceptible persons. The disease is associated with HLA-DQ2 in 90 to 95 percent of cases and with HLA-DQ8 in 5 to 10 percent of cases and is self-perpetuating in the continued presence of gluten.¹ It is the interplay between genes (both HLA and other types) and environment (i.e., gluten) that leads to the intestinal damage that is typical of the disease.² Under physiologic circumstances, this interplay is prevented by competent intercellular tight junctions, structures that limit the passage of macromolecules . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Center for Celiac Research and Mucosal Biology Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.

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