March 18, 2010

An explanation for the blood group AB?

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March 20, 2010

Black Fedora @ 12:49 am

the a and b antigens arose regionally. when populations started inerbreeding, the antigens became mixed and the ab type was born.

March 23, 2010

Shelle @ 10:15 am

AB is made from someone with blood type A and someone with blood type B

March 25, 2010

just-me @ 1:45 am

i'm norwegian, german and gypsee. i have ab- so being mongolian, maybe the gypsee part but i dont think so.

March 27, 2010

s0ulrider2k @ 11:54 am

Interesting…the mongols did invade Europe about that time(1222 A.D.)

March 28, 2010

bwadsp @ 5:23 pm

I am A my former wife was B. One of my daughters is AB the other B

March 29, 2010

owd_bob @ 2:01 pm

Have a look at this link with frequencies of blood types in different racial groups

Highest for type 'O' are aboriginal peoples across the globe (e.g. Australia, N. and S. America, Inuits). These would have the "original" human blood type, and being isolated from populations in which later mutations ('A' 'B' and 'AB') arose, they remain sometimes pure 'O'

Lowest incidence of type 'B' (other than those mentioned above) is in Europe, and the site says "early European races are characterized by a very low type B frequency". This suggests to me that type 'B' must have arisen and spread into Europe much more recently. Interesting that type 'A' is so high among Pacific rim races, but also high in Lapps and Norwegians. Maybe it has arisen independently on two separate occasions, or perhaps it confers an evolutionary (survival) advantage on people under certain environmental conditions? The worldwide distribution (except for peoples isolated for tens of thousands of years) suggests type 'A' arose a long time ago

Highest for 'B' are Kalmuks (41%) and Buryats (38%), who are of Mongolian descent. Other high scores are among the Chuvash (Urals) and Ainu (Japan) whose languages are thought by some to be part of the Altaic group originating from the Mongol language. Romany gypsies also have 35% type 'B'. Tartars, Peking Chinese, Koreans, Indians, Vietnamese and Thais also have ~30%+. This seems to me to be entirely consistent with type 'B' originating in Mongolia fairly recently and spreading East, South and West with the Mongol empire.

'AB' is common in all races with high frequencies of 'B', as 'AB' comes from having parents that are type 'A' and 'B'

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