Independent Photos :: Friday January 6, 2006

Friday January 6, 2006

Independent/Barrett Stinson

A routine blood typing procedure in the summer of 2004 led St. Francis Medical Center medical technologist Christy Nickel to find a phenomenon that has never been seen in the United States before. A child born from a mother with type O blood and a father with AB was born with AB blood because of a mutation that allowed the father to pass both the A and B antigen to the child. It is so rare that it affects only 0.000011 percent of the world population.

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