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To: US Navy Vet

“...For example, Queen Victoria, a major proponent of pure blood lines, married her cousin Albert, and the two had nine children who then passed hemophilia”


If I understand the genetics correctly, it wouldn’t matter who Vicky married. The hemophilia mutation occurred on one of her X chromosomes. Albert had nothing to do with it.


16 posted on 11/29/2019 9:02:27 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

Correct. One defective X chromosome is sufficient to pass the disease to a son, or make a daughter a carrier.


22 posted on 11/29/2019 9:54:56 AM PST by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: hanamizu

Yes a mutation. I don’t think her parents carried it,unless her father was not her biological father.


30 posted on 11/29/2019 10:29:59 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: hanamizu

Hemophilia is a sex-linked trait carried on the X chromosome making it dominant in males and recessive in females. Baldness and color blindness are also sex-linked.


37 posted on 11/29/2019 11:22:52 AM PST by MisterArtery
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