It is now known to be haemophilia B and believed to have resulted from a gene mutation in Victoria.
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In 2013, more than 20 years after his first discovery, Crossley discovered the third protein that causes Haemophilia B Leyden
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Crossley completed his doctorate at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship under the supervision of George Brownlee, researching the molecular genetics of Haemophilia B.
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In 1947, Pavlosky, a doctor from Buenos Aires, found haemophilia A and haemophilia B to be separate diseases by doing a lab test.
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Haemophilia B has been known to arise spontaneously in the children of older fathers, and Victoria's father was fifty-one when she was born.
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However, during his tryout he was diagnosed with Haemophilia B ( also known as Christmas disease ), a rare disorder which prevents blood from clotting properly.
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Spontaneous mutations account for about 33 % of all cases of haemophilia A . About 30 % of cases of haemophilia B are the result of a spontaneous gene mutation.
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Brownlee cloned and expressed human clotting factor IX, providing a recombinant source of this protein for Haemophilia B patients who had previously relied on the hazardous blood-derived product.
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Factor VIII is used in haemophilia A and factor IX in haemophilia B . Factor replacement can be either isolated from human blood serum, recombinant, or a combination of the two.
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He was one of the two people in 1951 establishing that Haemophilia split into two groups : isolating what is now commonly called Haemophilia B, then known as Christmas disease after its first known host, Stephen Christmas.
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