<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I heard from several people who thought that both parents had to actually have CD in order to have a child with CD...and that is not the case. As to whether both parents have to carry the gene in order to have a child with celiac disease...it seems the jury is still out. The parents of one child with CD said that they had asked Dr. Fasano that very question two years ago and his reply was, "they don't know". I also heard from a Dutch Ph.D. student who is working on the genetics of CD and her answer was, "your daughter's book is wrong, we don't know yet". Let's hope that the year 2000 will bring us closer to the answers we need! Elizabeth