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We Mapped Blood Types. Nobody Knows Why They Exist
We Mapped Blood Types. Nobody Knows Why They ExistKarl Landsteiner sorted human blood into A, B, AB, and O more than a century ago, and a 1990 Nature paper pinned the difference to a few DNA letters and one deletion. A 2014 follow-up still called the evolutionary point of that polymorphism unknown.
- Molecular genetic basis of the histo-blood group ABO system
- blood group ABO and related genes
- in-an-iranian-population-mashad-study.html- The Mystery of Human Blood Types
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- emro.who.int
- scienceabc.com
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