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What is Hemophilia?
Do I have hemophilia?
How can I get hemophilia?
Where is the gene that causes hemophilia?
How do the doctors see if I have hemophilia?
How do I get rid of hemophilia?
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Where is the gene that causes hemophilia?

Here you can see exactly where the gene for this disease is located in your DNA.

Hemophilia is a sex-linked disorder, so the gene that causes hemophilia occurs on the X chromosome. The gene that causes the disease is the HEMA gene, and it is a recessive gene.

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The middle chromosome seen in the picture is a picture of the X chromosome. The HEMA gene which affects Hemophilia is the last, or bottom, gene on the chromosome.

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Let's move on to learn about the methods of detection used by doctors to see if you have hemophilia:

How do the doctors see if I have hemophilia?