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Familial correlations, segregation analysis, and nongenetic correlates of soy isoflavone-metabolizing phenotypes.
Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) - 1 Oct 2004
Frankenfeld C L, Atkinson C, Thomas W K, Goode E L, Gonzalez A, Jokela T, Wähälä K, Schwartz S M, Li S S, Lampe J W
Abstract excerpt
Particular intestinal bacteria metabolize the soy isoflavone daidzein to equol and O-desmethylangolensin (O-DMA), metabolites that can be identified in urine. Individuals that harbor bacteria capable of producing equol or O-DMA are known as equol producers (approximately 30%-50% of the population) and O-DMA producers (approximately 80%-90% of the population), respectively. The equol-producer phenotype has been...
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