{"id":226046,"date":"2025-11-27T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/super-rare-hybrid-blood-type-discovered-in-just-3-people"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:12:01","slug":"super-rare-hybrid-blood-type-discovered-in-just-3-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/super-rare-hybrid-blood-type-discovered-in-just-3-people","title":{"rendered":"Super-Rare \u2018Hybrid\u2019 Blood Type Discovered in Just 3 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-rare-hybrid-blood-type-discovered-in-just-3-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An investigation into why blood doesn\u2019t always behave as doctors expect has revealed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-identify-new-blood-group-and-its-the-worlds-rarest\">super-rare<\/a> mutation in an extremely uncommon variation of blood.<\/p>\n<p>Testing more than 544,000 blood samples in a hospital in Thailand revealed three people carrying a never-before-seen version of the B(A) phenotype \u2013 a genetic quirk estimated to occur in about 0.00055 percent of people, or roughly one in 180,000.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery, says a team led by hematologist Janejira Kittivorapart of Mahidol University in Thailand, suggests that there may be more rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/why-do-we-have-blood-types\">blood variants<\/a> out there, too subtle for standard testing to detect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation into why blood doesn\u2019t always behave as doctors expect has revealed a super-rare mutation in an extremely uncommon variation of blood. Testing more than 544,000 blood samples in a hospital in Thailand revealed three people carrying a never-before-seen version of the B(A) phenotype \u2013 a genetic quirk estimated to occur in about 0.00055 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}