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If a mother has celiac should the daughter be tested?
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No: Only if the daughter has symptoms. There is only a slight familial tendency and it is clearly not a single-gene disease. Remember the symptoms can be subtle -- belly pain, "indigestion", even "spastic colon".
Answered 2/20/2012
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