Whether blood donation leads to genetic modification.?

Question

If someone donates blood to another person,it may lead to alteration of DNA of the recipient.When recipient male or female person gives birth to a child,it may lead to the genetic modification in the offspring,as per the blood donor^s.

Answer 1

Blood donation does not cause this. Bone marrow and stem cell donation can though. And really what happens is you have two sets of dna. For example, I just had a stem cell transplant. Now my blood carries a different dna than the rest of my body. This could effect the genetics of my offsrping, were I still fertile.

These people are called chimeras. It happens naturally as well in humans and other mammals when certain things happen during fertilization of a child. There is also an animal called chimera that is naturally this way normally.

Interesting reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

Answer 2

No, it doesn't.

Donated blood contains red blood cells, which do not contain DNA. The recipient is not genetically altered in any way by the transfusion.

Their children have an extra "layer of protection," so to speak. Egg and sperm cells are derived from germ stem cells, so the DNA that is passed to the next generation comes only from these cells. Even if the other cells in the body are altered substantially, as long as the germ line cells are unaltered, it is the parent's ORIGINAL genetic code that is passed. Acquired characteristics on the other hand are not propagated.

Answer 3

Blood donation does not change anyone's DNA. If you donated blood to me, your blood cells would be living in my body, with their DNA, but blood cells die after a few months, so there would be no permanent effect on me. Also, the DNA of a child comes from the DNA of the sperm and egg only, and it doesn't matter what the DNA of any other cells of the parent are.

Answer 4

definetly not.when we donate blood to a recepient then these blood cells flow in the recepients body and then die after completing their specific lifespan.donation of blood is a method of meeting with the bodies demand of excess blood at that moment.since all the red blood cells have specific antibodies and antigens present it is necessary to match the blood and then transfuse otherwise a antigen antibody reaction btween two different groups can be harmful for the body.no there is no effect on the child being born if the mother or father are recepients.

Answer 5

not at all dear friend
i wonder what made u think such??
if it would have been so then so many of us would have been mutants by now??
u know what if this would have been true then y just blood;exchange of any body fluid like saliva(while kissing)or semen(while intercourse)would have made a new mutant in each of us while living!!!
but it is not so.

Answer 6

noooooo