India's first and world's tenth unique blood group found in Gujarat man

India's first and world's tenth unique blood group found in Gujarat man

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: July 18 2022

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  • In a first, a new blood group has been found in India, which is also the rarest in the world. 
  • A 65-year-old man from Gujarat who is a heart patient has been identified with EMM negative blood group, a unique blood type which cannot be categorized into the existing groups of ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘O’ or ‘AB’.
  • In general, there are four types of blood groups in the human body, which further consist of 42 types of systems, like A, B, O, Rh and Duffy. 
  • There are also 375 types of antigens in which EMM is high.
  • Due to the lack of EMM in the blood, the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) has named it EMM negative.
  • People with such rarest blood groups can neither donate their blood to anyone, nor can they acquire it from anyone.
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