<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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