Description: Genetics of Hemophilia
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Hemophilia is a blood clotting disorder. It is a process when blood in the body is turned to blood. Hemophilia is a life long disease, but people who have it still have active lives. If you have hemophilia and you get a cut you will bleed longer than a normal person would. The earliest references in history to hemophilia go back before the year 1000. Many royal families were known have it through out history. It is known to occur in men and women. It is not common to any race. 20,000 people are known to have the disease.
Problems with Disorder
Symptoms associated with hemophilia are tight joints, unexpected bleeding, many large, deep, unexplainable bleeding, swelling of joints, blood in urine or stool, and nose bleeds with no cause.
Body Systems Affected
Many of the systems in the body are affected by hemophilia, mainly the Circulatory System, because of hemophilia’s effect on blood. Hemophilia is also involved with the Urinary and Muscular Systems.
Organs
The organs affected by hemophilia are mainly include blood veins and skin.
Genetics of the Disorder
Hemophilia is usually passed down from a mother. Usually a male is more likely to have hemophilia passed on to them. Hemophilia is a recessive disorder. Hemophilia is carried on by X Chromosomes. A male is more likely to receive hemophilia.
Treatment
A method to treat hemophilia is a treatment called the replacement therapy. Replacement Therapy is used on an as-need basis. It is the giving or replacing the clotting factor that’s too low in blood. There is no cure for hemophilia, but regular blood infusions can control it.
Prevention
Hemophilia is an unpreventable disease, do to the fact that it is genetically passed on. Someone who wants a child and has hemophilia should ask a specialist in genetic counseling to see the chances of a child inheriting hemophilia.