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The fetal DNA in a mother's blood can already reveal an infant's sex and other traits inherited from the father. But picking out a fetus's entire genome from its mother's is much tougher, says Dennis Lo, a chemical pathologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who led the study.
If the father is not present at the hospital following the birth, the mother will not be able to list him as the father on the birth certificate in his absenceâthe father and mother will instead have to sign the voluntary declaration of paternity at a later time, and have the fatherâs name added to the birth certificate later.