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Blood Types

Sunday, December 7, 2008 13:41 3 Comments

Blood type is a special type of inherited trait that is governed by multiple alleles, or gene variants.  Most often referred to as the ABO blood group, these three alleles (A, B, and O) can produce four phenotypes from six genotypes.  Of the three possible alleles, A and B are always dominant to O.  In [...]

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