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 ...

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, ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

Most people are familiar with the common blood groups A, B, AB and O, along with the Rh factor that determines whether a type is positive or negative. Yet new research reveals how surprisingly complex ...