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Celiac.com 2/13/2003 - According to a recently published huge-scale multi-year and multi-center study, 1 in 133, or a total of 2, 131, 019 Americans have celiac disease. Alessio Fasano, MD, et. Al. And colleagues screened 13, 145 subjects using serum antigliadin antibodies and antiendomysial antibodies (EMA) Those who had positive EMA results were screened again for human tissue transglutaminase IgA antibodies and CD-associated human leukocyte antigen DQ2/DQ8 haplotypes, and when possible, intestinal biopsies were given.