Several genes with varying inheritance patterns are involved in determining your blood type. The most significant gene is the ABO gene which determines your ABO blood type. Like many of your physical ...

Researchers reveal for the first time that high blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes can play a causal role in lung disorders. Groundbreaking research published today in Nature Genetics describes the ...

Very early in the pandemic doctors began tracking the association between COVID-19 disease severity and a patient’s blood type. Now researchers have validated those early observations, finding several ...

In 2011, a woman from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe underwent routine tests before a surgery. Strikingly, doctors could not identify her blood group, which was so unique that they did not ...

There are many known risk factors for COVID-19 — chief among them age and immunocompromised status. Now, it turns out that one’s blood type may play a role in the severity of one’s COVID-19 symptoms, ...

Do you know your blood type? Scientists say everyone should in case of a life-threatening event that results in a need for a blood transfusion. But now, they've discovered a new group of blood types ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a new blood type that is so rare it exists in only one person on Earth. The blood type, called “Gwada negative,” was found by researchers at ...

Large-scale genetic analysis has helped researchers uncover the interplay between cancer-driving genetic mutations and inherited genetic variants in a rare type of blood cancer. Researchers from the ...