I recently gave birth to a wonderful little boy. My friends say that your child gets one of the parents blood types. My husband is AB+ and I'm either A+ or B+ I can't remember but my newborn is o+ can this be correct? Or did they mess up at the hosptial?
2007-03-27 10:12:09 · 14 answers · asked by sweetone 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
THAT IS ODD I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE CHILD GOT ONE OF THE PARENTS BLOOD TYPE TOO!
2007-03-27 10:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by mrs.b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok ... Your husband has A and B (there are 2 copies) and Rh +
Your must be Ai or Bi, or AA or BB
Your baby can be AA, Ai, Bi, BB or AB ( i is the non-dominant O type, A and B are dominant)
The bottom line is, as I see it that if your husband is AB, I don't think your baby can be O blood type which would be ii in Mendelian genetics.
He doesn't have to have one of the parents blood types. If your husband is either A, B or O blood type your baby could have O type blood. (just not if either of you are AB).
side note: can test O but its a long shot.
Bombay phenotype is extremely rare: the condition mainly occurs in small closed-off communities where the recessive gene has a chance to find two parents with this same blood type. Other examples may include noble families, which are inbred due to custom rather than local genetic variety
2007-03-27 10:46:59 · answer #2 · answered by Robert S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Dad is O and the baby is AB (the positive is not important), then something is definitely wrong because this combination of blood types is generally not possible. What is wrong could be:
(1) You have your info wrong or the lab made a mistake (for example the baby is not AB or the dad is not O), or..
(2) The O dad is not the real dad (it's someone else)
Don't jump to conclusions. The 1st possibility may be more likely.
2007-03-27 10:22:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The explanation I haven't read in the answers above mine is that a random mutation could have occurred to give the son Type O blood.
It's true that a Type AB parent doesn't have an O to give to a child, so Type AB parents don't have Type O children. However, a mutation, a mistake in the lab, a mistake in the report, or a mistake in reading and telling the results could all be possible. I wouldn't worry about it.
2007-03-27 10:30:58 · answer #4 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is another possibility not mentioned above. Its called the "Bombay Phenotype". Your son could have a very rare recessive gene called FUTI. If that is true, then the different antigens, A B or AB, cannot be expressed, because these antigens are linked to a cell's membrane through another substance called H Substance. If your son is homozygous recessive for this gene, then the H substance will not be made, and the antigens would not be expressed, hence he would be O+. So yes it is possible for your son to be O +.
2007-03-27 10:53:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous Q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your blood type is o positive so you can have the recessive gene o in your blood. Your husband cannot have a recessive o because he has the rare ab blood type. Below is a link to Punnet square showing the possibilities. They gave you the wrong blood type because that is not probable. He can have any blood type except O.
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=71
2007-03-27 10:24:10 · answer #6 · answered by pyromaniac2617 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the form of blood you're is the form of antigens placed on a pink blood cellular. despite the fact that antigens you have, you have the different antibodies. as an occasion, in case you have style A blood, you have B antibodies. this means O blood style has no antigens, as a result has the two antibodies. AB blood style has the two antigens, so they have no antibodies. if an a guy or woman gets B blood, their blood might clot and that they might die. it particularly is by using fact the B antibodies of their blood might "latch" onto the B antigens, and commence chaining up. this might reason a clot. if an AB guy or woman gets B blood, no longer something might take place. it particularly is by using fact AB has no antibodies to combat it off. AB can acquire from any blood style. no longer something might take place if a B guy or woman gets O blood. it particularly is by using fact the O blood cellular has no antigens on it to "latch" onto the antibodies. O blood can provide to everyone, yet purely acquire from O. if a B guy or woman gets AB blood, the A antibodies might combat the A antigens interior the AB. they might commence a sequence reaction and clot besides.
2016-10-20 02:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called Mendel's Law.
I am an O negative,
my husband A+ our kids are A+, A-, A-,A- my parents are both O positive!
Genetics extend past the parents, Your child, like me, gained a recessive gene from his grandparents.
Don't listen to friends.. ask your doctor. That is what I did when I found out I wasn't like my folks.
2007-03-27 10:16:36 · answer #8 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a recessive gene. That's your baby. My mom was O positive, my dad is B positive.... and here I am looking just like my dad and being A positive. Ignore a lot of answers here.... hell, they aren't doctors. I just know a little because we are a family of medical people.
2007-03-27 10:28:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you could both have a recessive O gene in your blood, that came out from both of you when you had your child.
2007-03-27 10:15:51 · answer #10 · answered by bengy0925 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋