Hemophilia

What Increases Your Risk

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

Sometimes, a child is born with hemophilia because part of a normal chromosome changes (mutates) in the eggs or sperm of one or both parents. Medical researchers do not yet know why this mutation occurs in some people.


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Author: Robin Parks, MS
Ralph Poore		Last Updated: October 12, 2007
Medical Review: Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Brian Leber, MDCM, FRCPC - Hematology

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