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This article was last updated on 8/20/2007.

What Increases Your Risk

Hemophilia is an inherited genetic disease. The risk of a child inheriting hemophilia depends on the parents' genetic makeup.

Sometimes, a child is born with hemophilia because part of a normal chromosome changes (mutates) in the eggs or sperm of one or both parents. Medical researchers do not yet know why this mutation occurs in some people.

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Author:	Robin Parks, MS	Last Updated: August 20, 2007
Medical Review:	Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine Brian Leber, MDCM, FRCPC - Hematology

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