Hemophilia in European Royal families...

[headscratcher4]

As a history buff, I thought this was interesting....

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/roylhema.html

[Shane Costello]

Try this:

Inbreeding (www.scalzi.com/milhideouslyinbred.htm) among the Hapsburgs. (www.hapsburg.com/menu5.htm)

The Hapsburg jaw, so notorious it prevented Charles II, the Bewitched, from chewing his food, would become a fantastic case study for future geneticists. The inbreeding that occurred among the Hapsburgs during this period had vicious consequences:

Since the late nineteenth century, the marriages of the Habsburgs in the period form 1550 to 1700 have been considered a genetic disaster, with cousins and even closer relatives marrying and then replicating the same incestuous patterns generation after generation.

What would Michael Moore have made of that?

[Soapy Sam]

D.M and W.T.W. Potts wrote a book entitled "Queen Victoria's Gene" (ISBN 0-7509-1199-9) about the appearance of the haemophilia gene in Victoria's family. They seemed to opt for it being a point mutation, but the possibility remains that Victoria may have been illegitimately fathered by a haemophiliac. Complicated stuff, but interesting.