Luke A.J. O'Neill is in the Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. laoneill@tcd.ie
Many patients with Crohn disease, an inflammatory bowel disorder, carry mutations in NOD2. The finding that NOD2 normally dampens Toll-like receptor 2−mediated inflammation may explain this association.
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