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14-September-2008 18:02:38 - ABO blood group system ABO redirects here. For other uses, see ABO disambiguation. H substance redirects here. For use in inflammation, see histamine. ABO blood group antigens present on red blood cells and IgM antibodies present in the serum ABO blood group antigens present on red blood cells and IgM antibodies present in the serum The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system or blood group system in human blood transfusion. The associated anti-A antibodies 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 animals, for example cows and sheep, and apes such as chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas.1 Contents 1 ABO antigens 2 History of discoveries 3 Serology 4 ABO hemolytic disease of the newborn 5 Inheritance 6 Population data 7 Association with von Willebrand factor 8 Subgroups 8.1 A1 and A2 9 Bombay phenotype 10 Nomenclature in Europe and former USSR 11 Examples of ABO and Rhesus D slide testing method 12 Universal blood created from other types, and artificial blood 13 Myths 14 References 15 Further reading 16 External links ABO antigens Diagram showing the carbohydrate chains which determine the ABO blood group Diagram showing the carbohydrate chains which determine the ABO blood group The A antigen and the B antigen are derived from a common precursor known as the H antigen or H substance. The H antigen is a carbohydrate sequence with carbohydrates linked mainly to protein with a minor fraction attached to ceramide moiety. The majority of the ABO determinants are expressed on the ends of long polylactosamine chains attached mainly to Band 3 protein 1, the anion exchange protein of the red cell membrane, and a minority of the epitopes are expressed on neutral glycosphingolipids 1. In blood group O, the H antigen remains unchanged and consists of a chain of beta-D-galactose, beta-D-N-acetylglucosamine, beta-D-galactose, and 2-linked, alpha-L-fucose, the chain being attached to the protein or ceramide. H antigens can be changed into A or B antigens by enzymes coded by the blood group A or B genes, which are sugar glycosyl tranferases. Type A has an extra alpha-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine bonded to the D-galactose at the end, while type B has an extra alpha-D-galactose bonded to the D-galactose at the end. Individuals with type A blood can receive blood from donors of type A and type O blood. Individuals with type B blood can receive blood from donors of type B and type O blood. Individuals with type AB blood can receive blood from donors of type A, type B, type AB, or type O blood. Type AB blood is referred to as the universal recipient. Individuals with of O blood can receive blood from donors of only type O. Individuals of type A, B, AB and O blood can receive blood from donors of type O blood. Type O blood is called the universal donor. One caveat to this axiom of 'universal donor' is that this applies to packed RBC's and not to whole blood products. Using the first table, type O carries anti-A and anti-B antibodies in the serum. To transfuse a type A, B, or AB recipient with type O whole blood would produce a hemolytic transfusion reaction due to the antibodies found in the serum of whole blood. recipient donor A A or O B B or O AB A, B, AB, or O O O Antibodies are not formed against the H antigen, except by those with the Bombay phenotype. In ABH secretors, ABH antigens are secreted by most mucus-producing cells of the body interfacing with the environment, including lung, skin, liver, pancreas, stomach, intestines, ovaries and prostate.2 History of discoveries The ABO blood group system is widely cred to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who found three different blood types in 1900;3 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for his work. Due to inadequate communication at the time it was subsequently found that Czech serologist Jan Janský had independently pioneered the classification of human blood into four groups,4 but Landsteiner's independent discovery had been accepted by the scientific world while Janský remained in relative obscurity. Janský's classification is however still used in Russia and states of former USSR see below. In America, Moss published his own very similar work in 1910.5 Landsteiner described A, B, and O; Decastrello and Sturli discovered the fourth type, AB, in 1902.6 Ludwik Hirszfeld and E. von Dungern discovered the heritability of ABO blood groups in 1910-11, with Felix Bernstein demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924. 7. Watkins and Morgan, in England, discovered that the ABO epitopes were conferred by sugars, specifically N-acetylgalactosamine for the A-type and galactose for the B-type Morgan, W. T. J. Watkins, W. M. Br. Med. Bull. 25, 30-34 1969, Watkins, W. M. in: Advances in Human Genetics Vol. 10 eds Harris, H. Hirschhorn, K. 1-136 Plenum, New York, 1980, Watkins, W. M. Morgan, W. T. J. Vox Sang. 4, 97-119 1959. After much published literature claiming that the ABH substances were all attached to glycosphingolipids, Laine's group 1988 found that the band 3 protein expressed a long polylactosamine chain Jarnefelt, Rush, Li, Laine, J. Biol. Chem. 253: 8006-80091978 which contained the major portion of the ABH substances attached Laine and Rush in Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates A. Wu, E. Kabat, Eds. Plenum Publishing Corporation, N.Y. NY 1988. Later, Yamamoto's group Yamamoto, et al., Nature 345, 229-233 1990, showed the precise glycosyl transferase set that confers the A, B and O epitopes. Serology Anti-A and anti-B antibodies, which are not present in the newborn, appear in the first years of life. It is possible that food and environmental antigens bacterial, viral or plant antigens are similar enough to A and B glycoprotein antigens that antibodies created against the environmental antigens in the first years of life can cross react with ABO-incompatible red blood cells. Anti-A and anti-B antibodies are usually IgM, which are not able to pass through the placenta to the fetal blood circulation. O-type individuals can produce IgG-type ABO antibodies. The Light in the Dark theory DelNagro, 1998 suggests that when budding viruses take with them host cell membranes from one human patient in particular from the lung and mucosal epithelium where they are highly expressed they also take along ABO blood antigens from those membranes, and may carry them into secondary recipients where these antigens can elicit a host immune response against these non-self foreign blood antigens. These viral-carried human blood antigens may be responsible for priming newborns into producing neutralizing antibodies against foreign blood antigens. Support for this theory has come to light in recent experiments with HIV. HIV can be neutralized in in-vitro experiments using antibodies against blood group antigens specifically expressed on the HIV producing cell lines. 8 9 The Light in the Dark theory suggests a new novel evolutionary hypothesis that there is true communal immunity, which has developed to reduce the inter-transmissibility of viruses within a population. It suggests that individuals in a population supply and make a diversity of unique antigenic moieties so as to keep the population as a whole more resistant to infection. A system set up ideally to work with variable recessive alleles. ABO hemolytic disease of the newborn Main article: Hemolytic disease of the newborn ABO ABO blood group incompatibilities between the mother and child does not usually cause hemolytic disease of the newborn HDN because antibodies to the ABO blood groups are usually of the IgM type, which do not cross the placenta; however, in an O-type mother, IgG ABO antibodies are produced and the baby can develop ABO hemolytic disease of the newborn. Inheritance A and B are codominant, giving the AB phenotype. A and B are codominant, giving the AB phenotype. Blood group inheritance Mother/Father O A B AB O O O, A O, B A, B A O, A O, A O, A, B, AB A, B, AB B O, B O, A, B, AB O, B A, B, AB AB A, B A, B, AB A, B, AB A, B, AB Blood groups are inherited from both parents. The ABO blood type is controlled by a single gene with three alleles: i, IA, and IB. The gene encodes a glycosyltransferase-that is, an enzyme that modifies the carbohydrate content of the red blood cell antigens. The gene is located on the long arm of the ninth chromosome 9q34. IA allele gives type A, IB gives type B, and i gives type O. IA and IB are dominant over i, so ii people have type O, IAIA or IAi have A, and IBIB or IBi have type B. IAIB people have both phenotypes because A and B express a special dominance relationship: codominance, which means that type A and B parents can have an AB child. A type A and a type B couple can also have a type O child if they are both heterozygous IBi,IAi Therefore, an O child is not a direct proof of illegitimacy, just as a child with blond hair could be born from parents who both had brown hair. The cis-AB phenotype has a single enzyme that creates both A and B antigens. The resulting red blood cells do not usually express A or B antigen at the same level that would be expected on common group A1 or B red blood cells, which can help solve the problem of an apparently genetically impossible blood group.10 Some evolutionary biologists theorize that the IA allele evolved earliest, followed by O by the deletion of a single nucleotide, shifting the reading frame and then IB.citation needed This chronology accounts for the percentage of people worldwide with each blood type. It is consistent with the accepted patterns of early population movements and varying prevalent blood types in different parts of the world: for instance, B is very common in populations of Asian descent, but rare in ones of Western European descent. This, however, contradicts the more commonly stated theory that type O blood evolved earliest, supported by the fact that all human beings can receive itcitation needed. The British National Blood Transfusion Service states this to be the case see the web-link under External Links below and says that originally all human beings were type O. Population data The distribution of the blood groups A, B, O and AB varies across the world according to the population. There are also variations in blood type distribution within human subpopulations. In the UK the distribution of blood type frequencies through the population still shows some correlation to the distribution of placenames and to the successive invasions and migrations including Vikings, Danes, Saxons, Celts, and Normans who contributed the morphemes to the placenames and the genes to the population.11 There are six common alleles that produce one's blood type:1213 A ABOA101 A1 ABO ABOA201 A1 B ABOB101 B1 O ABOO01 O1 ABOO02 O1v ABOO03 O2 Many rare variants of these alleles have been found in human populations around the world. Association with von Willebrand factor The ABO antigen is also expressed on the von Willebrand factor vWF glycoprotein,14 which participates in hemostasis control of bleeding. In fact, having type O blood predisposes to bleeding,15 as 30% of the total genetic variation observed in plasma vWF is explained by the effect of the ABO blood group,16 and individuals with group O blood normally have significantly lower plasma levels of vWF and Factor VIII than do non-O individuals.1718 In addition, vWF is degraded more rapidly due to the higher prevalence of blood group O with the Cys1584 variant of vWF an amino acid polymorphism in VWF:19 the gene for ADAMTS13 vWF-cleaving protease maps to the ninth chromosome 9q34, the same locus as ABO blood type. Higher levels of vWF are more common amongst people who have had ischaemic stroke from blood clotting for the first time.20 The results of this study found that the occurrence was not affected by ADAMTS13 polymorphism, and the only significant genetic factor was the person's blood group. Subgroups This section is incomplete - please help to expand it. A1 and A2 The A Blood Type contains about twenty subgroups, of which A1 and A2 are the most common over 99%. A1 makes up about 80% of all A-type blood, with A2 making up the rest.21 These two subgroups are interchangeable as far as transfusion is concerned, however complications can sometimes arise in rare cases when typing the blood.21 Bombay phenotype Main article: Hh antigen system Individuals with the rare Bombay phenotype hh do not express substance H on their red blood cells, and therefore do not bind A or B antigens. Instead, they produce antibodies to substance H which is present on all red cells except those of hh genotype as well as to both A and B antigens, and can therefore receive blood only from other hh donors although they can donate as though they were type O. Nomenclature in Europe and former USSR In parts of Europe the O in ABO blood type is substituted with 0 zero, signifying the lack of A or B antigen. In the former USSR blood types are referenced using numbers and Roman numerals instead of letters. This is Janský's original classification of blood types. It designates the blood types of humans as I, II, III, and IV, which are elsewhere designated, respectively, as O, A, B, and AB.22 The designation A and B with reference to blood groups was proposed by Ludwik Hirszfeld. Examples of ABO and Rhesus D slide testing method Blood group O positive: neither anti-A nor anti-B have agglutinated, but anti-Rh has Result: Blood group B negative: anti-A and anti-Rh have not agglutinated but anti-B has In the slide testing method shown above, three drops of blood are placed on a glass slide with liquid reagents. Agglutination indicates the presence of blood group antigens in the blood. Universal blood created from other types, and artificial blood In April 2007 an international team of researchers announced in the journal Nature Biotechnology an inexpensive and efficient way to convert types A, B and AB blood into type O. 23 This is done by using glycosidase enzymes from specific bacteria to strip the blood group antigens from red blood cells. The removal of A and B antigens still does not address the problem of the Rhesus blood group antigen on the blood cells of Rhesus positive individuals, and so blood from Rhesus negative donors must be used. Patient trials will be conducted before the method can be relied on in live situations. Another approach to the blood antigen problem is the creation of artificial blood which could act as a substitute in emergencies. BBC. Myths There are numerous popular myths surrounding ABO blood groups. These beliefs have existed since the ABO blood groups were identified and can be found in different cultures throughout the world. For example, during the 1930s, connecting blood groups to personality types became popular in Japan and other areas of the world.24 The popularity of Peter J. D'Adamo's book, Eat Right For Your Blood Type suggests that these myths persist. This book claims that ABO blood groups can be used to determine diet as well as to predict diseases. Additional myths include the idea that Group A causes severe hangovers, group O is associated with perfect teeth, and those with blood group A2 have the highest IQs. 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