![]() ![]() They have some very advanced labs there.Įpisode 2 - Personal disasters on and off the air.Įpisode 3 - Suits, stars, Moms and media.Įpisode 4 - Garry and Tom can't stop laughing.Įpisode 5: Garry meets the Pope. I carry a special blood-typing card because I have some strange (rare) subtype under the B+ and when I had heart surgery, they ran a lot more tests on me than are normally run and Beth Israel is the right hospital to do it. I’ll have to dig in again and see if they’ve learned anything new. ![]() It’s a fascinating subject about which not nearly enough is known. It would have been a lot more interesting than discovering that I’m exactly what I thought I was - Jewish as far as anyone can tell as far back as anyone has information. The ONLY place where B is the dominant blood type is central Asia and I don’t have ANY of that DNA at all. My mother - with her straightforward central European background - should have been an A or AB, not O. No one knows how all the Os appeared everywhere, either. Plus an unknown 1.3% from who knows where. Almost exclusively central European with a very small (like 2%) North African percentage. And it shows up in every race and population around the world where it absolutely should NOT be. I’ve discovered - because I get a lot of reaction to this post - that there are a lot of other people trying to figure it out too. I am not sufficiently medically sophisticated to try to start to explain the sub-typing and how Bs emerge from a non-B family. I haven’t poked around in a couple of years. Even if I did, I probably wouldn’t understand most of what they were saying anyway. There are other databases, but I am sure you need credentials as a scientist or doctor to get into them. It is the best I could do with information available to the general public. I spent a lot of time trying to make sense of it and eventually, this is the article that emerged. There’s very little information on the net. There are “sub” types, some of which are rare - and mine is (apparently) one. There is more to the makeup of our blood than just type. I have a couple of other weird anomalies. Which is why whenever I’m in the hospital (rather more often than I should be it seems) and I say B+ they all raise one eyebrow and test me anyway. My mother was O+ and my father might (I’m not sure and he’s long gone now) an AB+, but that should not produce a B+ kid. There’s surprisingly little information about blood types and how they sometimes just “show up” where they are not supposed to be. I was even MORE surprised to realize that I couldn’t be what I was (theoretically) and still be my parent’s child. So, did you learn anything? I think it shows that somewhere in my dim, distant family history, a soldier from the Golden Horde left some DNA behind. Clearly there is something to be learned from the distribution of blood types in the world, but no one is sure what, exactly. So after all this, I don’t know much more than I did when I started. Scientists and other theorists can’t even agree whether or not we all have the same progenitors. It turns out there is no universally accepted theory of the origins of man. If this shows some kind of migratory pattern for our ancestors, no one can prove it. The middle East, melting pot that it is, is more or less evenly divided into the three major blood types. The highest percentage it reaches is 38% of the population and that is in the Philippines. Very rare in the British Isles and Scandinavia. It is highest in the Philippines and Siberia, lowest in the Americas. However, there are relatively high frequency pockets in Africa too.ī is not a dominant blood type anywhere. It’s believed to have been entirely absent from Native American and Australian Aboriginal populations prior to the arrival of Europeans. It reaches its highest frequency in Central Asia and Northern India. Overall in the world, B is the rarest ABO blood allele. Particularly interesting since O is the dominant blood type everywhere. What evidence did they base this on? None. Worse, there are pockets of racists who contend that A is the only pure Aryan blood type. At least one study (I’m not sure I should dignify it with that name) claims people of B-type blood are descendants of Neanderthals while O and A descended from Cro-Magnon. There are always racists looking for a way to prove they are superior to everyone else. This is a bit of a hot topic because some places, blood typing has been used to categorize people as inferior, notably Japan. Many scientists theorize that “O” was the “original” human blood type and all other types mutated from it. Among native peoples in the western hemisphere, type O is close to 100%. My mother was type O, the most common blood group everywhere. It’s not unheard of, nor so infrequent as to be rare, but low. The incidence of type B is low amongst Jews. ![]()
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