On 24 Oct 1993 leder at rcf.rsmas.miami.edu wrote:
> Here is a hopefully easy question for someone out there:
> I would like to know what are the possible blood types of a child
> of parents who are A+ and A- ? Very Important! Thanks for your response.
It would depend on the parents' genetic makeup. For a blood test to turn
out as type A, the actual genes could be AA or AO; if mom and dad are both
AO, the child could turn out type O. Otherwise the only possible type
would be A. Rh would probably be + in any case. So your answer is A+ or O+.
> When blood typing is used (or was before DNA testing ?) in paternity suits
> -are they checking this A+,B,O-etc or is it something else? Can blood type
> be used for that purpose?
Yes, and Yes. :)
Jane Harper, MS, RN, CCRN
Predoctoral Fellow, Physiological Nursing
University of California, San Francisco
jharper at itsa.ucsf.edu
