ABO Blood Group System

The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system (or blood group system) in human blood transfusion. The associated anti-A and anti-B antibodies are usually IgM antibodies, which are usually produced in the first years of life by sensitization to environmental substances such as food, bacteria, and viruses. ABO blood types are also present in some other animals, for example apes such as chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas which portrays our 'recent' common ancestry.

Read more about ABO Blood Group System:  History of Discoveries, ABO Antigens, Serology, Nonantigen Biology, Transfusion Reactions, ABO Hemolytic Disease of The Newborn, Inheritance, Distribution and Evolutionary History, Association With Von Willebrand Factor, Disease Association, Bombay Phenotype, Nomenclature in Europe and Former USSR, Examples of ABO and Rhesus D Slide Testing Method, Universal Blood Created From Other Types, and Artificial Blood, Myths

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