Hemophilia
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is a genetic blood disease, which is characterized by the
inability of blood to clot, or coagulate even from minor injuries. This disease
is caused by an insufficiency of certain blood proteins, called factors, that
participate in blood clotting and often by sudden gene mutation. Therefore,
with ....
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.... is how females are able to be affected
by hemophilia. Inheritance is controlled by a recessive sex-linked factor
carried by the mother on the X chromosome. There is a fifty percent chance that
the sons of a female carrier will have hemophilia. There also is a fifty
percent chance that the daughters of a female carrier will be carriers of
hemophilia. In addition, all daughters of men with hemophilia are carriers, but
his sons are unaffected. Men cannot transmit hemophilia, and female car ....
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