Hemophilia Inheritance: Understanding the Risk for Your Children

If you are a male with hemophilia, your sons will not have hemophilia, but your daughters will be carriers of the hemophilia gene. This means that they have the potential to pass the gene on to their children. If a female carrier has children with a male who does not have hemophilia, each son has a 50% chance of having hemophilia and each daughter has a 50% chance of being a carrier.

If you are a female carrier of hemophilia, your sons have a 50% chance of having hemophilia and your daughters have a 50% chance of being carriers. If you have children with a male who has hemophilia, all of your sons will have hemophilia and all of your daughters will be carriers.

The risk of passing on hemophilia can be significantly reduced through genetic counseling and prenatal testing.