Our TGFβR2 expression data in Winnie-ApcMin/+-TNF-KO was also supported by a paper describing the development of lethal inflammatory disease and invasive CRC in a mutant APC model of colon carcinogenesis, which was characterized by an epithelial truncation of TGFβR2 [42]. This evidence concerns the gene TGFBR2 and colorectal carcinoma.