indulge me. also if anyone has stats/maps on blood type distribution (geographic), post em

* gimme a rh too (whatever that is)

:)

this should be a poll

A+ , naturally ;)

Type O Negative

Mine is red. Other than that, I have no idea.

Originally posted by Nebula
Type O Negative

the band?

where are you from galt?

also if anyone has stats/maps/articles on blood type distribution (geographic), post em

i really want this. fascinating shit

i have a friend who insists that her parents have O and A blood and she has AB. i tried explaining mode of inheritance but she insisted. that is when you change the subject....

...that just means her father isn't the person she calls "daddy". ;)

Originally posted by Nebula
Type O Negative

Same. http://www.sciforums.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Alcohol and some red stuff :)

A+ and rh +.

The extraordinarily high percentage of blood group O in "ancient" or otherwise isolated populations also testifies to its great age. (6) Even though the early migrations dispersed the gene for group O blood throughout the world, there are some extraordinary examples of "old" populations existing in our world today. Because of their geographic locations, these societies have remained isolated from interaction with other populations. If A, B and O had developed simultaneously, the isolated population groups would have had all of them. But these "old societies" are group O because genes for the later blood groups never had the opportunity to enter into their populations. They have remained unchanged.

basque, amerindian, celts are a few examples where type o predominates.
so ahh nebula is amerindian and solidus is a frikkin basque! am i right or wrong???

by careful analysis of air's info, i have deduced he is an east indian. am i right or wrong?

swede's friend is a bastard/mongrel

swede is the epitome of human perfection

since i am a+ as well, i guess i too am perfect!!

A+ (perfect) :D

mine is o +

AB-

A- Hmm...thought there would be more A-'s here. :( Feelin lonely.

Mine is ummm read.....blue at times.....but mostly red.

Type O - as well.

Right on, my blood buddies! *High fives her O-negatives* ;)

Originally posted by DarkEyedBeauty
A- Hmm...thought there would be more A-'s here. :( Feelin lonely.

oh! did i say a+? i just painstakingly rechecked hospital records going back a decade and it turns out i am a-!!

so ahh... what do you wanna do?

I have absolutely no idea,although as my dad was O and my mum is A then im probably A,
A+O=AO=A
useally.

Im 23 and i dont know my blood type,i think thats a good sign.

Actually, I have no idea what blood type I am. I just said Type O Negative because I like the band.

thought so! nobody types it out unless they're referring to the band.

by careful analysis of air's info, i have deduced he is an east indian. am i right or wrong?

Actually I'm a South Indian. :)

by careful analysis of spookz's info., i deduce his blood has electro-magnetic properties and changes its charge from + to - depending on some lonely high-voltage source like DEB. right or wrong.?

My blood type is AB positive

AB positive, I love it, I can't give blood except to AB positive people and I can take blood from all groups.

I've got B-

When I was pregnant I found out that an important test for blood type is necessary because negative blood people are at a risk. Thank god I'm positive, but supposidly, if you're negative and your partener is positive and you end up carrying a positive child, a severe reaction can occur that can kill baby. Nowaday they give the mother with negative blood type a shot to make her compatible with her baby.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_newborn/pregnancy/rh.html

In short, all Rh negative woman should be carefull about carrying children from Rh positive men, it could be very very serious.

Yes, i believe in that case the mothers blood starts to attack the child in the womb. I have read it is primarily a risk when having a second child.

Ya, I vaguely remember learnign something about that in Bio 30. HOwever, I slept through a LOT of Bio 30, so it could have been a dream. But, I remeber something about blood mixing at birth...the first childs fine, but after that it gets tricky. I dunno. LIke I said, I slept, and my bio teacher was a frickin idiot so I abviously don't know waht I"m talking about. Except for this:
A+

Does anybody know that the Japanese have a myth that different blood types imply different personalities?
http://www.vocationalpsychology.com/biology9.htm

Interesting link (and sub-links) Fetus, thanks! I was asking myself
those very questions yesterday. I wondered if there was correlation
between blood type and intelligence (or rather, different skills for the
blood types).

Cool stuff...

what is your blood type?

i like mine pumping and hot...


otherwise 0+

I don’t believe there is a statistical correlation between blood type and any personality trait, blood type is an immune system marker and nothing more until proven other wise.

So I take it you don't believe in astrology, WellCooked?

Pretty cool link. I'm not sure whether I believe in blood type affecting personality, but I know that everything to do with Type O- applies to me. Same with my astrological sign. Then again, placement of the stars have changed by now so that's not exactly accurate.

Flores: Reading that link scared me. I've never heard of that before, but I've thought about 'general potential difficulties' (don't ask - we lead a strange life, and I'm a bit paranoid :rolleyes: ) between my boyfriend and I ever since I learned that his blood type is AB (I'm not sure if he's negative or positive, I'll have to ask him). Does this mean that I have a good chance of having a baby with an incompatible blood type compared to mine? From WellCooked's link, it says that people with Type O cannot recieve any other type of blood.

Originally posted by Twinkle Toes
Flores: Reading that link scared me.

Oh don't worry, this is only a risk for people that don't get prenatal care and regular blood test and for people that were born 100 years ago. Now a days, they give you a shot to fool your immunity system to attack something other than the baby and nothing happen. Just make sure that you respect prenatal care even though it might seem unnecessary procedures some times.

In short, all Rh negative woman should be carefull about carrying children from Rh positive men, it could be very very serious.

When an rh negative woman gets her first child from an rh positive man, the two blood types (having the rh factor or lacking it), obviously do not match. The mother's body senses the baby's blood as something foreign and begins to build up resistance to rh positive blood. If the woman gives birth to a second child it will most certainly die. This is called Erethroblastosis Foetalis. Some Bio did stick in my head after all.

red white and blue.

god that was cheesy. but really i have no idea..

A +

Semi-rare, B negative.

Our blood groups are not a hit or miss act of random genetics without any real purpose. Rather, the ABO blood groups are a set of differing solutions to a host of environmental variables, such as diet and infection, which insured the survival of the human race. The blood group adaptations were a change in "human antigenicity"---a biological desire to identify with the prevailing currents of the environment.

By looking at the distribution of blood groups today, we can see the threads of our evolutionary history. In the United States, O is the most prevalent blood group, A is second, followed by B, and finally AB. The breakdown in Great Britain is very similar to the U.S. percentages. In Germany there are slightly more A than O; B and AB remain almost the same as U.S. percentages. In Japan and China As, Os and Bs are fairly evenly split, and the AB percentage increases over that found in European populations.

Blood groups and the history of peoples (http://www.dadamo.com/napharm/store3/template2/encyclopedia.html)

blood history (http://http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/history/index.html)

basics (http://http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/e13basic.html)

type a
http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/images/map_of_A_blood_allele.gif

type b
http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/images/map_of_B_blood_in_the_world.gif

type o
http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/images/map_of_O_blood_in_the_world.gif

Distribution of Blood Types (http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_3.htm)

Can you map Rh factor to that would be cool :cool:

There is only legitimate scientific proof that blood type is an immune system marker all that other crap about eat for you blood type and stuff is just that.

ah, 0-5 % for the B. I wonder if this might be an indicator of where our ancestors may have originated from when considering a family tree?

Also when I was in service there came an order to report to the post hospital to give blood. It seems there were only 11 of us on the whole post who could give blood to a surgery patient that needed it. I do not know if all 11 were contacted or if they could give blood. The post was Ft. Benning. It was a fairly large post at the time.