{"id":29984,"date":"2025-02-10T07:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29984"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:54:40","slug":"bombay-blood-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bombay-blood-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay Blood Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bombay Blood Group Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, in a rare and complex medical procedure, a 30-year-old woman with the extremely rare \u2018Bombay\u2019 (hh) blood group underwent a successful kidney transplant in India.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bombay Blood Group<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bombay, a.k.a. HH, blood group is a <strong>rare blood group<\/strong> first discovered in Mumbai in 1952 by Y.M. Bhende.<\/li>\n<li>The key differences between the Bombay blood group and the common ABO blood groups lie in the <strong>presence (or absence) of the H antigen<\/strong>, which is the fundamental building block for the ABO blood group system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is it Rare?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In normal individuals, the H antigen serves as the base structure for <strong>building A and B antigens<\/strong>. In Bombay blood group individuals, the <strong>gene responsible for producing the H antigen<\/strong> is <strong>mutated or absent,<\/strong> so neither A nor B antigens can be formed.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike common blood groups, people with this type lack the H antigen, making them <strong>incompatible with all standard blood types<\/strong>, including O-negative, complicating both transfusions and organ transplants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They can only receive blood from another Bombay blood group donor. Its prevalence is about 0.0004% (one in 4 million) of the total human population.<\/li>\n<li>While it drops to one in a million in the European population and one in 10,000 in Mumbai, the act of finding a donor is still daunting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bombay Blood Group FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is the difference between O and Bombay blood group?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Bombay blood group is a rare blood group in which there is the absence of H antigen and presence of anti-H antibodies. At the time of blood grouping, this blood group mimics O blood group due to the absence of H antigen, but it shows incompatibility with O group blood during cross matching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What is the Bombay blood group defect?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Named for the city in which it was first discovered, the &#8220;Bombay phenotype&#8221; describes individuals whose RBCs lack the H antigen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is golden blood?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The rarest blood type in the world is known as \u201cgolden blood type\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/miot-chennai-cross-blood-kidney-transplant-patient-bombay-blood-group\/article69195971.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay Blood Group is a rare blood group first discovered in Mumbai in 1952 by Y.M. Bhende.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}