Celiac disease in pediatric patients according to HLA genetic risk classes: a retrospective observational study

• Main Authors: Carlo Tolone (Author), Marisa Piccirillo (Author), Pasquale Dolce (Author), Salvatore Alfiero (Author), Mattia Arenella (Author), Marina Sarnataro (Author), Patrizia Iardino (Author), Alessia Pucciarelli (Author), Caterina Strisciuglio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune enteropathy in which HLA-DQ haplotypes define susceptibility. Our aim was to evaluate if belonging to a certain HLA-DQ class risk could be associated to the clinical, serological and histological presentation of CD. Methods We performed a retr...