Flora Peyvandi / X
Jul 27, 2025, 06:16
Can a Single DNA Change Decide If You’ll Have a Boy or a Girl? Scientists Think So
Flora Peyvandi, Professor of Internal Medicine in Hemostasis and Thrombosis Unit, University of Milan-Italy, former president of ISTH, shared a post on X:
”A change in chromosome 10, in a gene called NSUN6, was associated with a higher probability of having only girls, while women with a change in a single DNA letter on chromosome 18, near a gene called TSHZ1, were more likely to have only boys.”
Read the article here.

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