Human Biology (MindTap Course List)
Human Biology (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305112100
Author: Cecie Starr, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To explain: The probability of the first male child of a woman unaffected by hemophilia A but had a father with hemophilia A and marries a man with hemophilia A.

Introduction: Hemophilia A is an X-linked homozygous recessive genetic disorder. Probability in genetics is used to determine the outcome of genotypes of offspring and the probability of its occurrence when parent genotypes are known.

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