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Joe Murray wrote:

does anyone have knowledge of cd occuring in aboriginal peoples? Joe murray

Joe,

You might be interested in the article by Dohan et al., Biological
Psychiatry 19:385-399 (1984), entitled "Is schizophrenia rare if grain is
rare?" This article includes some studies of remote regions of New Guinea,
the Solomon Islands, and Micronesia.  It does not deal specifically with
celiac disease, however.  I suspect that aboriginal populations do not carry
high frequencies of the histocompatibility antigens (MHC proteins) strongly
associated with celiac disease.

Don Kasarda