Antenatal sex determination in blood from pregnant women

✍ Scribed by J. W. Siebers; Ilse Knauf; H. G. Hillemanns; W. Vogel

• Book ID: 104704658
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 494 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6717
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00284797

✦ Synopsis

Reported results concern Y-chromatin of lymphocytes and granulocytes in the peripheral blood of pregnant women. In women who later delivered male children, a mean of 3.75% Y-chromatin was found in lymphocytes. Even after investigation of paternal Y-chromatin, the rate of false diagnoses (14%) in prenatal sex diagnosis could be reduced only moderately. In early pregnancy lymphoid cells with a Y-chromatin could be first traced only in the 8th week; granulocytes showing a Y-chromatin did not appear until the 9th week.