Hemophilia is considered as a genetic disorder that
disrupt the bodys ability to control blood clothing because one of the factor that takes part in the clothing process does not work properly. According to the reading passage, there are two types of hemophilia. Type A and Type B. The hemophilia type A occurs when the factor 8 does not function properly; whereas, the type B happens when the factor 9 does not work properly. How the people is affected by the hemophilia? Almost all the population, around the 85%, suffers from Hemophilia A and the rest from hemophilia type B. This genetic disorder is transmitted through mothers to son yet in some cases, women develop spontaneously this illness. It is common that in the case of the transmision from mother to son, they are most likely prone than women to develop the hemophilia. On the other hand, the professor, in the lecture, explains another type of hemophilia whose name is Royal Hemophilia because of its development in the Hannover Royals house when the Queen Victoria passed a mutated gene of the hemophilia type B to three of her 9 children. Due to a variety of marriage between different Royal Houses, this type of hemophilia was spread through Europe, for instance Spain, where Beatriz had a daughter who would the future Queen of Spain had two of her sons affected by this genetic disorder. In not only Spain but also Russia and Austria were places in where this illness took place.