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Hemophilia Manitoba
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, or hemophilia, is a sex-linked genetic
disorder that is effecting about 20,000 Americans, most of
which males. A person with hemophilia either has an
inactive or inadequate supply of one of several blood
factors needed for blood to clot. .... Middle of Term Paper
... one bad gene and one good gene for this
disease. There is a fifty percent chance that she would
pass it on to her child because she can only pass on one of
the two chromosomes. If a male has hemophilia, he will
have normal sons and all of his daughters will be carriers
of the hemophilia disorder because all he can pass on is
the defective X-chromosome.
Males mostly have hemophilia, but women can also have
hemophilia. This is extremely rare though because two
defective X-chromosomes would be needed. In fact, the
first proven case of women having hemophilia was not until
the 1950’s (Bornstein 89). Female carriers ar ... |
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