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Within the limits of accuracy imposed by errors of diagnosis and sampling, the daughters of haemophilic men bear equal numbers of normal and haemophilic sons, whilst half the sisters of haemophilic men are heterozygous for haemophilia.
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Haldane, J.B.S., Philip, U. The daughters and sisters of haemophilics. Journ. of Genetics 38, 193–200 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02982171
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