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    Blood Types

Percentages of Population
 
Percentage of
the Population
with Your:
Percentage of Patients
Who Can Receive Your:
 

 Blood

Type

Red Blood Cells

Platelets Plasma
  A+ 34%    37%: A+, AB+   100% 85%: A+, A-, O+, O
  A- 6% 44%: A+, A-, AB+, AB-   100% 85%: A+, A-, O+, O
  B+ 9% 12%: B+, AB+-   100% 56%: B+, B-, O+, O
  B- 2% 15%: B+, B-, AB+, AB-   100% 56%: B+, B-, O+, O
  AB+ 3% 3%: AB+   100% 100%: All Blood Types
  AB- 1% 4%: AB+, AB-   100% 100%: All Blood Types
  O+ 38% 84%: 0+, A+, B+, AB+   100% 45%: O+, O
  O- 7% 100%: All Blood Types   100% 45%: O+, O


 
Genetics and Blood Types

Wondering how to find out your blood type? After donating blood at the Dak-Minn Blood Bank, we will mail you a blood type card in about two weeks.
 

 

  

Mother                    

 

A B O AB

 Father   A     

A, O A, B, AB, O   A, O A, B, AB

    B     

A, B, AB, O   B, O B, O B, A, AB

    O     

O, A O, B O, O A, B

   AB     

A, B, AB A, B, AB A, B A, B, AB

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