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Hemophilia
Why does animals get hemophilia?
Hemophilia A is the most common severe inherited coagulation disorder in animals and human beings. In dogs, as in other species, the disease arises as...
Does a human offspring inherit hemophilia from the mother or father?
The mother is the one who passes the hemophilia gene. However, it is the father's sperm that determines if the child will be a boy or a girl. It is no...
Is hemophilia homozygous or heterozygous?
The disease is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait and thus occurs in males and very rarely in homozygous females. Heterozygous females for the d...