“Get The Sex of Baby know With a Easy Blood Examine.”

Falling in sex ratio is already a bother for policymakers and sociologists in Country. Now, scientists have developed a new blood test that will allow early detection of foetal gender, further endangering the girl child.

Unlike ultrasound tests currently used for finding out the sex of an unborn child, the new blood test would let expecting mothers know the sex of their baby as early as the first trimester.

The test measures the ratio of two crucial enzymes, DYS14 and GAPDH, from foetal DNA circulating in the mother's blood. The ratio is an effective indicator of foetal gender, Korean scientists who developed the test said. The research results have been published in the latest issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. By which the result will be known accurately.

The non- invasive test will require just a drop of blood from the pregnant woman. Currently, till the onset of ultrasound, the procedure of amniocentesis is used for sex determination, But it is invasive and carries the risk of miscarriage. Moreover, it can't be performed until 11 weeks of pregnancy.

Ultrasound gives reliable determination of foetal gender but it can't be performed in the first trimester, The use of ultrasound for sex determination has been outlawed in India, following its misuse for abortion of the female foetus, which has led to skewed sex ratio in many parts of the countries ,

“This can reduce the need for invasive procedures in pregnant women, analysing the blood samples from 203 women during their first trimester. The presence of circulating foetal DNA and the quantity of the two enzymes were confirmed through a series of tests. The results were confirmed when the women gave birth. “The study shows it is possible to predict the sex of a child as early as the first few weeks after conception.