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Queen Victoria's Gene (Pocket Biographies)
Professor D M Potts
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Description for Queen Victoria's Gene (Pocket Biographies)
Paperback. The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family. Num Pages: 190 pages, 32 illustrations, tables, map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGR; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold, died from haemophilia, but no member of the royal family before his generation had suffered from the condition. Medically, there are only two possibilities: either one of Victoria's parents had a 1 in 50,000 random mutation, or Victoria was the illegitimate child of a haemophiliac man. However the haemophilia gene arose, it had a profound effect on history. Two of Victoria's daughters were silent carriers who passed the disease to the Spanish and Russian royal families. The disease played a role in the origin of the Spanish Civil War; and the tsarina's concern over her ... Read more
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Publisher
Sutton Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750911993
SKU
V9780750911993
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Ref
99-50
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