Patent ID: 8124344

Claim:
A method of predicting an amount of fatty acid content in bovine intramuscular fat, wherein the fatty acid is oleic acid, myristic acid or palmitic acid, comprising the steps of: (a) determining base <1> and base <2> described below: <1> a 16,024 th base corresponding to a polymorphic site which is either adenine (A) or guanine (G) shown in a base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 of a sequence list; and <2> a 16,039 th base corresponding to a polymorphic site which is either thymine (T) or cystosine (C) shown in the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 of the sequence list; (b) determining the genotype of fatty acid synthase defined by the base <1> and the base <2>; and (c) predicting that the contents of the oleic acid are highest in TW/TW genotype, followed by TW/AR genotype and lowest in AR/AR genotype, and that the contents of the myristic acid and palmitic acid are highest in AR/AR genotype, followed by TW/AR genotype and lowest in TW/TW genotype.