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GENINFER

  • helps counselors provide genetic advice
  • likelihood child will be a hemophiliac
  • female: XX, male : XY
  • hemo is recessive on X chromosome
  • female can carry on one X without symptoms
  • male with bad X is hemo
  • female with carrier mother, normal father: .5 chance of carrier
  • male with carrier mother, normal father: .5 chance of hemo
  • family tree ISA BN polytree
  • reference: Peter Szolgovits 1992 "compilation for fast calculation over pedigrees", cytogenetic and cell genetics, vol 59