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    Gluten intolerance and Celiac disease

    As part of the GrainGenes project role in answering some questions from the community, a number of questions were directed toward grains and their relationship to Celiac disease. A local authority on the topic, Don Kasarda, located at the USDA-ARS Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA was able to shed some light on this topic and has subsequently published and presented further on the topic. The original series of questions and responses can be seen in the following link.

    • Original listing of letters and e-mail responses regarding Celiac disease, posted Feb. 20, 1997

    Four articles from Don Kasarda:

    • Gluten and Gliadin: Precipitating factors in Coeliac Disease, 7th International Symposium on Coeliac Disease, Sept. 5-7, 1996, Tampere, Finland.
    • Grains in Relation to Celiac (Coeliac) Disease, 1999
    • Celiac Disease and Safe Grains, 2003
    • What We Know About Grain Safety, presented Oct. 22, 2004 at Celiac Disease and Other Food Intolerences, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY


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