Association between functional lactase variants and a high abundance of Bifidobacterium in the gut of healthy Japanese people

• Kumiko Kato ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ku-katou@morinagamilk.co.jp

  Affiliation Next Generation Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., LTD., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Sachiko Ishida,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Business Planning Group, Next Generation Science Institute, DeNA Life Science, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6463-3059

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• Masami Tanaka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation R&D Group, DeNA Life Science, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

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• Eri Mitsuyama,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Next Generation Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., LTD., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Jin-zhong Xiao,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Next Generation Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., LTD., Kanagawa, Japan

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• Toshitaka Odamaki

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Next Generation Science Institute, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., LTD., Kanagawa, Japan

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