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  2. Haemophilia - Wikipedia

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    Haemophilia (British English), or hemophilia (American English) [6] (from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) 'blood' and φιλία (philía) 'love of'), [7] is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.

  3. Inbreeding - Wikipedia

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    Animals avoid inbreeding only rarely. [2] Inbreeding results in homozygosity which can increase the chances of offspring being affected by recessive traits. [3] In extreme cases, this usually leads to at least temporarily decreased biological fitness of a population [4] [5] (called inbreeding depression), which is its ability to survive and ...

  4. Haemophilus influenzae - Wikipedia

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    Haemophilus influenzae (formerly called Pfeiffer's bacillus or Bacillus influenzae) is a Gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillary, facultatively anaerobic, capnophilic pathogenic bacterium of the family Pasteurellaceae.

  5. Vizsla - Wikipedia

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    Vizslas can be prone to various bleeding-related conditions such as hemophilia A and Von Willebrand's disease, leading to significant bleeding even from minor wounds due to a lack of blood clotting. Additionally, they may experience hypothyroidism , necessitating lifelong medication to support their thyroid in producing essential hormones for ...

  6. Haemophilia B - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of Hemophilia B in the population is about one in 40,000; Hemophilia B represents about 15% of patients with hemophilia. [6] Many women carriers of the disease have no symptoms. [6] However, an estimated 10-25% of women carriers have mild symptoms; in rare cases, women may have moderate or severe symptoms. [6]

  7. Sex linkage - Wikipedia

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    There are many more X-linked conditions than Y-linked conditions, since humans have several times as many genes on the X chromosome than the Y chromosome. Only females are able to be carriers for X-linked conditions; males will always be affected by any X-linked condition, since they have no second X chromosome with a healthy copy of the gene.

  8. Hematophagy - Wikipedia

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    The phlebotomic action opens a channel for contamination of the host species with bacteria, viruses and blood-borne parasites contained in the hematophagous organism. Thus, many animal and human infectious diseases are transmitted by hematophagous species, such as the bubonic plague, Chagas disease, dengue fever, eastern equine encephalitis, filariasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, malaria ...

  9. X-linked recessive inheritance - Wikipedia

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    It was once thought to be the "royal disease" found in the descendants of Queen Victoria. This is now known to have been Hemophilia B (see below). [9] [10] Hemophilia B, also known as Christmas disease, [11] a blood clotting disorder caused by a mutation of the Factor IX gene and leading to a deficiency of Factor IX. It is rarer than hemophilia A.