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Hemophilia is a blood-clotting disorder in humans that follows an X-linked recessive pattern of inheritance. A man with hemophilia and a woman without hemophilia have a daughter with hemophilia. If you let H represent the normal allele and h the hemophilia allele, what are the genotypes of the parents?
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