The option to determine fetal sex before delivery is a key element of the initial introduction of the unborn child to its parents. Multiple studies have shown that for over 50% of the participating parents, it was crucial to seek fetal sex determination for non-medical (social) reasons. Non-medical reasons for learning fetal sex during pregnancy also exist. For instance, the mother may be a carrier of an X- linked condition like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, hemophilia, or other heritable disorders. It is generally acknowledged that knowing fetal sex as early as possible for pregnant women is essential to long term planning and further screening for sex-related genetic disorders. Since the discovery of circulating cell-free fetal DNA (ccffDNA) in maternal plasma, noninvasive prenatal testing has been used for multiple diagnostic applications, including fetal RhD genotyping, aneuploidy detection, monogenic disorder screening, fetal sex identification, and X-linked abnormality determination. Keywords: Sneak peek NIPT Early gender test Pregnancy Fetal sex Maternal blood Maternal plasma Cell-free fetal DNA INTRODUCTION The SneakPeek Early Gender DNA Test can provide prenatal genetic information a month earlier thantraditional noninvasive prenatal tests (e.g., NIPS). SneakPeek gender test is the earliest and most accurate method for fetal sex determination. No false positive or false negative results were observed in this study.Ĭonclusion: SneakPeek® Early Gender Test was shown to be 100% accurate for fetal sex determination at 6 weeks gestation. SneakPeek accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were 100%, 100%, and 100% for fetal sex identification, respectively. All sonogram results matched the SneakPeek test results in this study. Test results at later gestational ages (7 and 8+weeks) matched the six-week test results. Results: SneakPeek accurately determined fetal sex at six weeks for 113 subjects in this study, results for two subjects were inconclusive. Sonography was also used to confirm SneakPeek test results for 103 pregnancies in the study. Since the SneakPeek® Early Gender Test was found to be 99.9% accurate at 7-weeks’ and 8-weeks’ gestation or later, the fetal sex test results for six-week gestation samples were confirmed with the 7-week and 8-week to 10-week sample results. Fetal sex was determined from the qPCR results using an algorithm that includes theQuantification Cycle (Cq) values of the Y-target sequence and autosomal control gene. Real-time quantitative PCR was utilized to detect male fetal DNA using a multi-copy sequence on the Y chromosome and total cell-free DNA using an autosomal control target gene. Using a commercial DNA isolation kit, circulating cell-free DNA (ccfDNA) was extracted from the maternal plasma samples. Maternal plasma was separated from whole blood via centrifugation. Three to four milliliters (mL) of maternal blood were drawn from each participant via venipuncture at three gestational ages (i.e., 6, 7, and 8 -10 weeks’ gestation). After excluding participants that reported miscarriage during the study, reported twin/triplet pregnancy, or miscalculated gestational age at the time of the initialsample collection, 115 individuals completed the trial in its entirety. Method: Between May and September 2021, 156 pregnant women were recruited from 12 clinics in the United States. The SneakPeek assay was further optimized to enable fetal sex identification at earlier gestations and its performance characteristics were determined at 6-weeks’ gestation. To our knowledge, no prior study has shown fetal sex identification from maternal plasma earlier than seven weeks of gestation with high accuracy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Ĭlinics Mother Child Health, Vol.19 Iss.4 No:1000419 ABSTRACTīackground: The SneakPeek® Early Gender Test was previously shown to be 99.9% accurate in determining fetal sex as early as seven weeks of gestation. CMCH-22-17127 (R) Published: 0, DOI: 10.35248/2090-7214.22.19.419Ĭitation: Szucs HD, Asprer L, Abunadi N, Milot H, Cacia S, Jacob C (2022)SneakPeek Early Gender Test: The Earliest and Most Accurate Method for Fetal Sex Determination at 6-Weeks Gestation. CMCH-22-17127 Editor assigned: 1, PreQC No. Gateway Genomics, San Diego, California, USAĬorrespondence to: Henriett Diana Szucs, Gateway Genomics, San Diego, California, US, E-mail: 0, Manuscript No. Henriett Diana Szucs*, Lia Asprer, Nora Abunadi, Haley Milot, Sarah Cacia, Chris Jacob
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