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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha, Minato-ku, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, Minato-ku, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/689 (2018.01); C12Q 1/68 (2018.01); C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C12N 15/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/689 (2013.01); C12N 15/00 (2013.01); C12N 15/09 (2013.01); C12Q 1/68 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method for determining whether a test subject has equol-producing ability or not. The method involves measuring equol-producing ability of a test subject, wherein an equol converting enzyme gene derived from enteric bacteria of the test subject is detected using three types of primer sets described herein as the primer sets a) to c).