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When a genetic testing kit promising to predict a baby's gender with 99.9% accuracy five weeks after conception was launched last year many pregnant women in America were delighted.
About 4,500 bought the kit and began making plans for the new arrival. Names were chosen; nurseries painted; siblings coached to say brother, or sister; and then, several weeks later, about 100 discovered that the tests had got it wrong.

In a class action lawsuit filed in the US district court in Boston on behalf of 16 women the makers of the Baby Gender Mentor are accused of breaking their promise. Barry Gainey, the women's lawyer, said he knew of about 100 women whom the kit had failed, including some from Britain who bought it online.

The suit seeks to bar Acu-Gen Biolab from falsely marketing its test and to compel the firm to honour its money-back guarantee. The Baby Gender Mentor's website promises "unsurpassed accuracy" in predicting the sex of a foetus from three drops of a pregnant woman's blood, allowing parents to form a "natural nexus with your baby...