The nurse is presenting information on the congentital disorder of hemophilia A. What fact will the nurse include?
a. It is seen in males and females equally.
b. It is transmitted by symptom-free females.
c. It is a sex-linked dominant trait.
d. It is a defective gene located on the Y chromosome.
ANS: B
Hemophilia A affects mostly males who received the sex-linked recessive trait from a symptom-free female. The defective gene is on the X chromosome.
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