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What race is haemophilia most common in?


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Haemophilia:

  1. Haemophilia is a sex-linked recessive disorder the abnormal gene responsible for haemophilia is carried on the X chromosome.
  2. Haemophilia is more common among male children because they only contain one X chromosome.
  3. Haemophilia is a recessive X-linked genetic disorder and the mutation that causes haemophilia is passed to an offspring via the X chromosome.
  4. Haemophilia is a genetic disorder that impairs the ability of the body to clot the blood, which is required to stop bleeding.
  5. It involves the mutation of genes that are essential for the clotting of blood the clotting of blood is a complex phenomenon involving 13 different proteins.

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