Scientists Just Found a New, Incredibly Rare Blood Type

A, B and Ooo, throw aside in a, City has a new player. Scientists in France, a novel, a rare blood type, which only one person has so far, has discovered the discovery of a rare blood type.

French Blood Facility (EFS), the only civil blood transfusion organization in the country, announced the discovery of the weekend. The type of blood, which is the nickname “Negative”, was found in a French woman first from Guadeloupe. It is a 48th different blood group system.

“This discovery was officially recognized by the international blood transfusion society in the beginning of June,” Efs said released Linked’s Friday.

It took a long time for this recognition to happen. Researchers first saw an unusual antibodine in the blood of women in 2011, and then presented an example for an ordinary examination in early 50s. However, this later did not need resources or technology needed to look at him. Finally, in 2019, he confirmed that the woman’s genetics had a unique blood-related mutation, which confirms the “high transmission DNA sequence” and inherited his parents.

His blood type is the result of both copies of this mutation, because it has a copy of his sisters, and it does not have. The type of blood is officially called Pigz, which is a reference to Gwada’s woman’s guadeloupean origin (is a French island area in the Caribbean Sea). So far, he seems like a kind.

“He is the only person in the world that matches with him,” Thierry’s medical biologist at EFS, which helps discover the type of blood, tell AFP.

Blood types apply to special combinations antigen covers our red blood cells. The most common antigens belong to the abo group, but scientists found more than 600 separate antigers that can be sorted by dozens of blood. It is important to know our blood type, because the immune system of our body can create antibodies that attack blood cells against blood type. This does not make only blood donation difficult, but pregnancy. Thus, in addition to simple interest, Gwada can classify negative and other rare blood, can be medically important.

“Finding new blood types means that patients with rare blood offer better care levels,” he said.

Pairarr and colleagues now hope to find others with the woman’s blood type, and first they will plan to look for blood donors in Guadeloupe.