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Does blood type affect the COVID-19 infection pattern?

Scheme of the possible infection rules according to RhD blood types and ABO ones.

Full line connection indicated the possibility of infection, Wij = 1, while dotted connection its impossibility. In the RhD infection system, individuals of the same group can infect each other, people with the RhD- group can transmit the infection to people with RhD+ one, but not viceversa. The scenario of the ABO system is similar although richer. For instance, the O type can infect the A type, while the opposite is not possible.

Citation: Miotto M, Di Rienzo L, Gosti G, Milanetti E, Ruocco G (2021) Does blood type affect the COVID-19 infection pattern? PLoS ONE 16(5): e0251535. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251535

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