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Author: Cecie Starr, Beverly McMillan
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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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