Episode 0091—The X Factor
Feb 08, 2021 • E91 • 00:37:36
As many as nine of Queen Victoria's male descendants suffered from hemophilia, a bleeding disorder known to be inherited on a recessive gene on the X-chromosome.
How might history have been changed if Victoria had not been a carrier of the gene?
Topic suggestion by listener Eric Rush.
Useful Web Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia_in_European_royalty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Russia
National Hemophilia Organization:
https://www.hemophilia.org/
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