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The sex of a foetus is determined during what stage?

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Gender: Gender is determined at conception.

Answered 10/3/2016

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Dr. Nikolaos Zacharias answered

Specializes in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Depends.: Your doctor can tell you the fetus' gender either by looking at the apparent external genitalia on imaging (u/s, mri), or by dna analysis (xx vs. Xy). In the first case, we could tell fetal sex by 10 weeks with some degree of uncertainty (<10%). In the second case, new non-invasive prenatal diagnosis methods are now available to test this after 7 weeks of pregnancy (maternit21) with >99% accuracy.

Answered 7/25/2012

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