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The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

World’s rarest hybrid blood type discovered in Thailand: Study found in just 3 people out of a massive research of 544,000 samples

A strange medical finding has emerged from Thailand, and it’s already catching attention in the global science community. Researchers looking through hundreds of thousands of blood samples reportedly stumbled upon something that didn’t quite fit known categories. It wasn’t A, B, AB, or O in the usual sense. It wasn’t even a typical variant. Instead, it appeared to be a “hybrid-like” blood type, something so uncommon that only a handful of people on record seem to carry it.

The condition, linked to what scientists call the B(A) phenotype, was found in just three individuals out of more than half a million samples. That’s not just rare. It’s almost invisible in population terms. Experts say it might point to hidden layers of human biology that standard blood tests simply don’t pick up.

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