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How can you get hemophilia?
Kay, so hemophilia is a sex-linked mutation, therefore more males get it than females. Also, as it's related to genetics, it's really just inherited. It's a recessive gene, meaning that both parents...
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How do you get hemophilia?
The majority of hemophilia cases are genetic and the individual is born with it. Approximately 1/3 of the cases of genetic hemophilia are spontaneous mutations in that person while the other 2/3 of...
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Who can get hemophilia?
Hemophilia normally refers to a genetic disorder that can be either inherited or the result of a spontaneous mutation. Since the genetic form of hemophilia is linked to a mutation on the X...
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If parents with hemophilia have a child Will that child have hemophilia?
If both parents have x-linked hemophilia, the father's genotype would be XhY and the mother's genotype would be XhXh, which is astronomically rare. If this did happen, all of their children would...
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What is the difference between Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B?
Hemophilia type A is when your blood is missing Factor VIII (8) of the 13 clotting factor proteins involved in the clotting process. In type B, the blood is missing Factor IX (9).
