Crohn’s Disease: One Gene Copy Too Few Leads To Weakened Defense

Patients with Crohn’s disease of the colon have one copy less than healthy persons of the beta-defensin 2 gene, a gene coding for an important defense molecule of the body.

An international research team comprising scientists of the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart and the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg have discovered a possible cause of the chronic inflammations.

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