Good news for future coeliacs!

In the news today is a Spanish researcher, Itziar Zubillaga Azpiroz, from the Universidad del País Vasco, who has presented her Doctoral Thesis about genetic analysis, and how it can be useful for the diagnosis of Coeliac disease. After having studied 175 coeliacs in the Basque Country, the conclusions of the research were that it is not necessary to have an endoscopy to have the disease diagnosed, but a simple genetic study will tell us whether we have Coeliacs or not. Apparently the result of the technique (which I haven't seen explained in detail in Spanish media) is 100% certain when it comes to a positive diagnosis, although only 97% when it's negative. But surely her research will be of great help if it's applied to public in general (who knows if, and when, with the health system being the way it is).