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Ok it's super unlikey for girls to be hemophilliacs


so... yeah

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i would seriously like to point out that women who have "hemophilia" technically only have anemia, as the genetic mutation of the inability to clot the blood is passed down through the x chromosome. Queen Victoria carried the gene, but she was only anemic, as was Czarina Alixandra Romanov her granddaughter, who thusly passed it on to her only son Alexei Romanov.

Hemophilia only becomes active in males, but it is passed down through the female line. Just saying.

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Wrong. Just wrong.

If a female carrier (ie, heterozygote for the gene whose recessive allele confers hemophilia) and a male hemophiliac mate, they could both contribute the recessive X chromosome. While this mostly produces a stillborn female infant, there are still instances when a female hemophiliac can be born and grow up with the disease.

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