Blood Disorders: Causes & Risks

  • Hemophilia - Cause

    08/20/07, Healthwise

    Hemophilia A and B are caused by an inherited defect in a pair of chromosomes. Hemophilia is a sex-linked genetic disease. It is also called an X-linked disease because the defect is on the X chromosome. Fathers pass the defective

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  • Hemophilia - What Increases Your Risk

    08/20/07, Healthwise

    Hemophilia is an inherited genetic disease. The risk of a child inheriting hemophilia depends on the parents' genetic makeup.

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  • Sickle Cell Disease - Cause

    12/09/08, Healthwise

    Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder. More specifically, sickle cell disease is an autosomal recessive disease. This means that to have the disease, you must inherit a gene for the disease from both parents.

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  • Sickle Cell Disease - What Increases Your Risk

    12/09/08, Healthwise

    Risk of inheriting sickle cell diseaseSickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder, passed from parent to child. Children with sickle cell disease have two defective genes, one from each parent. Various forms of sickle cell diso

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