Chinese hospital finds new genetic sequence for rare blood type p during routine tests

A new combination of some of the molecules essential for human life has been detected in a sample of an extremely rare blood type at a hospital in eastern China, according to a Chinese news report.

Modern Express Post reported on Saturday that the previously unknown nucleotide sequence in a person with the rare blood type p, a subtype of the P blood group, was found during routine blood tests last year at a hospital in Taizhou, Jiangsu province.

There are only about a dozen documented cases of people in China with type p blood, a variety that has a frequency lower than one in a million, according to the report.

It said staff at the Taixing People’s Hospital submitted the genetic sequence to the GenBank sequence database, an open access collection maintained by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information in the United States.

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