WHAT NOW????

What does it mean to have the allel for gluten intolerance, but not be a celiac?

Dia was just diagnosed with both the gene for celiac disease and the other for gluten intolerance, which means that both parents are involved and all of her children will have the genes?

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

HELP!

Terina



It says:

"Interpretation Of HLA-DQ Testing: HLA-DQB1 gene analysis reveals that you have one of the main genes that predisposes to gluten sensitivity and celiac sprue, HLA-DQB1*0201 or HLA-DQB1*0302. Each of your offspring has a 50% chance of receiving this gene from you, and at least one of your parents passed it to you.

You also have a non-celiac gene predisposing to gluten sensitivity (any DQ1, DQ2 not by HLA-DQB1*0201, or DQ3 not by HLA-DQB1*0302).

Having one celiac gene and one gluten sensitive gene, means that each of your parents, and all of your children (if you have them) will possess at least one copy of a gluten sensitive gene. Having two copies also means there is an even stronger predisposition to gluten sensitivity than having one gene and the resultant immunologic gluten sensitivity or celiac disease may be more severe."


It also says, call us if you have questions. Do they have a hour or two? I'm calling.