I was told today that my blood group is 0-, but my parents have A+ and B- Is this possible?

I have the feeling that something went wrong when determining my blood group? I always thought I had a B- blood group.

Asker: Saskia, 39 years old

Answer

Best,

That can be perfectly correct. Your blood group (AB) and your rhesus factor (+ -) are determined by two genes. If you have neither the gene for A nor the gene for B, then you have blood type O.

So there are some conditions

your parent who has A+ has genes AO and Rh + –

your parent who has B- has genes BO and Rh – –

As a child of those parents you can of course also be B-, B+, O+, AB +, AB-, A+ or A-. In fact everything.

Kind regards

I was told today that my blood group is 0-, but my parents have A+ and B- Is this possible?

Answered by

dr. Jasper Verguts

Gynecology-Obstetrics

Catholic University of Leuven
Old Market 13 3000 Leuven
https://www.kuleuven.be/

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