Hemophilia is a rare disease that affects about 400,000 people worldwide, and occurs mostly in men. In this report I will be talking about symptoms, how you develop it, treatment, testing, living with the disease and more. Hemophilia is a rare and painful blood disorder where your blood is not able to clot normally. There are two main types of hemophilia. Hemophilia A is a mutation in the gene VIII and type B is a mutation in the gene IX. Type A is four times more common than type B. if a person
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Genetic Engineering and Hemophilia Hemophilia is a blood disorder found in one out of every 7,000 people. Having famously afflicted Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, heir the the Russian throne, hemophilia causes excessive bleeding. Genetic engineering the the removal, addition, or redistribution of genetic material by scientists or genetic engineers in order to create a more ideal gene in a given circumstance. Hemophilia is a rare blood disorder that impress the body’s ability to control blood clotting
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C. The Case of Hemophilia and Right to Health Hemophilia is a genetic condition in which the body fails to produce a protein known as Factor VIII – a vital component of the blood-clotting mechanism. As a result, hemophiliacs are more susceptible to both internal and external bleeding. There are an estimated 100,000 hemophiliacs in India. Sufferers can only survive and lead relatively normal lives if the disease is treated with an expensive drug called Anti-Hemophilic Factor (AHF). Review of Literature
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healthy and happy. He has the most severe form of hemophilia. He is extremely intelligent even though he had lost so much blood and oxygen. He runs and jumps
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Hemophilia There are hundreds of different genetic disorders. Hemophilia is a sex- Linked disorder that affects the way a person’s blood clots. A sex-linked disorder has to do with the XX chromosomes of the mother and the XY chromosomes of the father. These genes have more functions than just identifying the sex of the person. Sometimes there are genetic mutations to these genes or certain traits that are passed down from parent to child. When a normal healthy person gets injured there
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Hemophilia & Transposons Hemophilia is an inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body’s ability to coagulate blood or control blood clotting. Hemophiliacs have problems in the blood coagulation mechanism and blood platelets and/or blood vessel defects that cause the individual to have problems forming blood clots to stop bleeding. The individuals tend to bleed for longer periods then normal individuals. Hemophiliacs do not bleed more intensely than normal individuals but due to the
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pregnant. She is excited, but she is worried. Her brother has hemophilia. Hemophilia is a sex-linked, recessive trait. If she carries the gene for hemophilia and she has a girl, what are the chances that the baby will have hemophilia? If she has a boy, what are the chances that the baby will have hemophilia? How would this change if her husband has hemophilia, too? a. Girl baby: b. Boy baby: c. Girl baby (if Dad has hemophilia): d. Boy baby (if Dad has
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she is pregnant. She is excited, but she is worried. Her brother has hemophilia. Hemophilia is a sex-linked, recessive trait. If she carries the gene for hemophilia and she has a girl, what are the chances that the baby will have hemophilia? If she has a boy, what are the chances that the baby will have hemophilia? How would this change if her husband has hemophilia, too? Girl baby: Boy baby: Girl baby (if Dad has hemophilia): Boy baby (if Dad has
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Hemophilia Russell Stoffel March 25, 2013 C. Engel Biol 101-SA01D Abstract Hemophilia is a sex linked inherited bleeding disorder directly linked to the X chromosome, which is responsible for the increased epidemiology in males. Women become carriers and pass it down to male offspring. The person has a decrease or lack of clotting factors in their blood, specifically factors XIII and IX which prevents their blood from clotting properly, causing
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represent principle 3? Jessica, Terry, Florence and Greg 4. Why are none of the males in figure 5.2 shown as carriers of hemophilia? If the male has an X, then he has the disease. A male can’t carry hemophilia due to them Only having a single X chromosome and hemophilia is an X-linked disease. 5. What is the probability that Marcy and Tom will have any child with hemophilia (irrespective of sex)? Show how you calculate this. The total probability would be 12.5%. This is calculated by marcy
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