XPost: alt.fan.heinlein   
   From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 2/14/2026 4:13 PM, William Hyde wrote:   
   > Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:09:16 -0500, Cryptoengineer   
   >   
   >>> While I have a lot of issues with the Catholic church, its   
   >>> extreme takes on how close a relative could marry (7 degrees of   
   >>> separation) had the good effect of avoiding this inbreeding,   
   >>> and also flattening society by destroying the 'hereditary clan'   
   >>> or 'tribal' layer of social organization, and encouraging far   
   >>> flung social connections.   
   >>   
   >> Except, of course, for the nobility and the royalty. Hemophilia   
   >   
   > Somewhere in her family tree, one of Victoria's ancestors, or Victoria   
   > herself, had a mutation on her X chromosome which led to the most famous   
   > cases of royal Hemophilia.  It was probably Victoria herself or her   
   > mother, but it is just possible that it existed earlier and was never   
   > passed to a male child.  Unlikely but possible.   
   >   
   > Queen Victoria had no siblings, but she passed her defective X   
   > chromosome to three of her children.  As the elder sons were healthy it   
   > did not become clear for some time that she carried the disease.   
   >   
   > Naturally the royalty of Europe were eager to marry into the royal   
   > family of what was then the world's dominant power.  Some did this   
   > before the disease was suspected, others took a chance, sometimes on   
   > dubious medical advice (carriers generally bruise more easily than non-   
   > carriers, and some experts were overconfident of their ability to use   
   > this to detect a carrier).   
   >   
   > Poor Leopold, Alexei and the others were not victims of their ancestor's   
   > martial practices. Just of bad luck and sometimes, bad judgment.   
   >   
   My father was a hemophiliac from this matriarchal carrier type.  (It was   
   a factor in his death in his 60's.)  Female children do not have   
   hemophilia from this but pass it down.  Male children do not pass it   
   down but have hemophilia.   
      
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