"Bad blood"

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"The modern consequences of an ancient human obsession, the fear of inheriting bad genes, are explored in this program. In Hiroshima, Steve Jones speaks with hibakusha-- children of atom bomb survivors, shunned as dangerous mates-- and assesses the genetic risk that their children will be mutants. The royal blood disease, hemophilia, is traced through the genes, but Jones scientifically disproves the theory thay Queen Victoria, whose son carried the disease, was its genetic source. A genetic dating service tests applicants for defective genes. A mutant gene that causes restricted growth is studied in combination with other causal factors, such as age and sex."--Container

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