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Methods involving nucleic acid molecules obtained from calcified microbial cells or material embedded in dental calculus of an animal

Patent number: 6322984

Abstract: The present invention provides the use of animal calculus as a source of nucleic acid which is useful in genetic studies. Such genetic studies may center on the host organism from which the calculus is derived or on microbial organisms whose nucleic acid is embedded in the calculus of the animal host.

Type: Grant

Filed: January 18, 2000

Date of Patent: November 27, 2001

Assignee: ADNA AS

Inventors: Hans R. Preus, Dag Lillehaug