Pregnancy Over 40, Gender Prediction
A lot of people need to wait for an ultrasound or other invasive procedures to find out the gender of their baby.For more pregnancy articles visit: www.getpregnantover40.com
According to some recent research, gender prediction may be done early in the pregnancy with a blood test. Although it is not widely available, this could be on the horizon. Read more:To make this discovery, Ryu and colleagues collected maternal plasma from 203 women during their first trimester of pregnancy. The presence of circulating fetal DNA was confirmed by a quantitative methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction of U-PDE9A. Multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to simultaneously quantify the amount of DYS14 and GAPDH in maternal plasma. The results were confirmed by phenotype at birth.
"Although more work must be done before such a test is widely available, this paper does show it is possible to predict the sex of a child as early as the first few weeks after conception," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "At present, parents are sometimes given the wrong information about the sex of their unborn child; this test should prove helpful in resolving any uncertainties of today's ultrasound observations."
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