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In Bory's summary of Dr. Fasano's lecture at the CDF meeting, he wrote:

B> He went into some discussion about the genes, and blood work.
B> I was not capable of following in any detail that information.
B> However I did pick up the fact that if we classify in the DQW2 area,
B> there is a 98% chance we will have Celiac Symptoms.

Bory, from my limited understanding of HLA typing in Celiac, you have this
backwards.
To quote from the Kagnoff's chapter in the 1992 Marsh treatise 'Coeliac
Disease'..

K>In some populations, DQw2 is found in 100% of individuals
K>with CD whereas in control populations this marker is
K>present in 25-30% of such individuals..... p. 225

The great majority of DQw2 individuals will never develop Celiac, even though
almost everyone with Celiac has DQw2.

Bill Elkus