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Looking at the pictures of members on People with Rhesus Negative Bloodtype, it becomes very clear that out of 1,000s of members, more than half display signs of red hair and/or freckles.
But how exactly does that correlate with rh negative blood?
Just like the rh negative gene, the red hair gene (MC1R) is recessive.
1 in 4 people from the general population carries this red hair gene.
That means out of 2 random people coming together, their chance of having a red haired child is 1 in 64.
While within the general population the chances are 1 in 4 that you carry the MC1R gene, 85% of people with freckles carry it.
While red hair and rh negative blood are being passed on recessively, freckles are dominant as it is the darker attributes within the genepool showing up in a person displaying the light skintone, but traces of darker ancestry showing up in spots.
The same can be said about hazel eyes where blue eyes turn into greenish eyes due to a dominant gene being in the mix.
In order to properly determine what if any connection there is between freckles, red hair and rh negative blood, we again need to look back at common ancestry and ask ourselves what an original population of rh negative people may have looked like.
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Women with red hair worse off health-wise
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I am O-, have red hair and freckles and blue eyes. My ancestry is Scottish.
I am O-, red undertones, freckles, Hazel eyes yet mostly greenish 🍏 and at times both different eyes colors with a touch of blue in one, both parents O-.
I’m told I’m very rare I’m redheaded, blue eyes, with AB Negative and RH Negative blood…
Me too exactly the same
I am a redhead with freckles and hazel/green eyes and I am AB- I had been wondering if there was a correlation between red hear and my blood type. I am English but i now live in New Zealand.
You have the same blood type as Jesus. Only 1% are AB you are so blessed. Your ancestors are from North Jerusalem
I’m O- I have blond hair and freckles. My mom is a natural red head with freckles.
I am a red headed woman from Canada. I have freckles, blue eyes and b positive
Blood. I know ! A unicorn. How rare am I? Only redhead in my family.
A-
Reddish hair freckles
No one in my family has this or rh- blood
Blue green hazel eye color
Scottish ancestry
I’m AB- and have dark hair almost black with red highlights in the sun🙏🙂
O Rh negative… as a little girl had dark auburn hair with hazel eye colour and freckles, as an adult my hair turned more into brown reddish colour, but my eyes defo turned brown! The thesis negative factor behind each blood type has a unique capability to change eye, skin tone& hair colour…., I guess is science after all, but obviously this is not enough evidence in the modern world!
O- have freckles and brown hair which has a nice red tinge in the sun.
I also have hazel eyes. Parents are Scottish and Greek
All my cousins are red hair, blue eyed and freckled.
A- ….
My hair ist brown, changes to dark blonde during summer.
BUT when my beard starts growing it gets red first and turns into a red-brown when it gets longer.
I do not have freckles, but a lot beauty spots (moles).
My eyes are grey/blue, turning into green when i am very happy or totally angry.
A- my fathers mother (my grandma) was a redhead and she had 9 kids. All children have blue eyes and blonde hair pale skin some freckles but we do tan with somewhat reddish undertones some grandkids (my cousins) have red hair. I have dark blonde hair with a reddish hue in the sun. My mother is very dark native woman and she is why I think my twin brother an I ran easily but fades easily also. Our eyes were brown until we reached our 20’s now they have begun to turn hazel a yellow green. (Also if I hold a flashlight to my eyes for longer than 10 seconds my eyes turn a wild yellow)(has anyone else tried this?????) it’s crazy. I noticed last year when I was trying to find something in my eye. I don’t have children yet (33yo) but my twin brother has two kids his 1st has blue eyes and orange red hair. She’s freckled too and extremely intelligent for a child her age. We have eczema but noticed if you stop with consuming a lot of yeast (beer too) and salty (pork) foods it clears up. Maybe this will help someone. Sun pierced my skin anymore and must stay indoors during these southern summers.
I’m A- I have red hair, very pale skin, & hazel eyes. My mother had red hair she was Scottish, Dutch, Irish, English. I also ended up with 2 sons with the same traits as mine, then had a daughter she has the opposite with brown hair blue eyes and warmer skin tone
I am O-, have red hair, blue eyes and skin that tans well. My Dad and aunt are red heads and blue eyes. German, French and some Scandinavian ancestry. Live in Wisconsin, USA.
I’m O+ with red hair, freckles, and blue green eyes. My skin burns easily. My Grandma on my Dad’s side was also a red head with fair skin. I’ve heard that most redheads are Rh negative. I’d like to know if I’m a recessive carrier of the Rh negative gene. Is there a specific blood test I can get to find out? If so then what is it called so I can request it, and get price quotes from a doctor. I’m sure the test isn’t cheap.
O Rh negative, also I do have Eastern European ashkenazi ancestry!
I’m 0-, have dark brown hair with redish shine, pale skin with freckles (less in winter), hazel eyes… My two brothers and sister and mum also 0-, green and blue eyes, dark brown hair with redish shine. Only my dad was 0+… And we are from Bosnia, Europa…
o+ Green eyes black hair
A- dark hair freckles brown eyes. Grandfather on fathers side had red hair and freckles from ireland
I’m A-, my dad was O- and my mother A+. What’s interesting is that my mother is currently strawberry blonde naturally, due to her hair lightening with age, but during her childhood and well into late adolescence, she had very bright orangy-red hair! My fathers side is eastern European, mainly Polish but with a Scottish and Scandinavian (very diluted) heritage via my grandmother. He was dark haired (as were all on my dad’s side) with pale blue eyes, tanned very easily with olive undertones. On my mother’s side we have a long line of Scottish and English heritage. All of the family on her side are very fair skinned that tans terribly, freckled and very ginger! Again, blue eyes.
Personally, I am naturally blonde, with very few freckles, fair skin and green/blue eyes. My sister is dark haired, very fair skinned, blue eyed and tans terribly.
If there is a correlation between rhesus negative and red hair, the gene must be very recessed in my family line. To my knowledge, none of my mother’s side (the redheads) are rhesus negative. Were regular blood donors so we’re all in the know when it comes to our blood types.
I’d love to find a link, starting to think I’ve been dropped off by the milkman!
Red (or reddish) as well as wavy hair appear to be more common in rh negatives.
O- I have brown hair and no freckles.
I am B- I have auburn hair and hazel eyes. My ancestry is Irish/Scottish, Scandinavian, and Native American. Of my children only one is negative, and he is B- as well but has blondish hair and blue-green eyes. My mothers side of the family is brown and red-haired with blue or grey eyes. My fathers, all dark haired with dark eyes.
Red hair, blue eyes, and AB-. I’m a Unicorn!
I am Mexican-American. Dark Hair, dark eyes and O-. Interesting.
I have O- blood and have auburn hair dark brown eyes and freckles. I also am 71 yo and have a lot of strange medical conditions. Does this sound like you?
I am A – with long,thick, curly, red hair. Eyes are greenish blue, pale skin that tans very lightly, but no freckles. Parents are welsh, but I live in England.
Please research how the negatives, especially 0, react differently to medication. My freind who is 0- tried the blood type diet with great success. Hanged his shape and his health tremendously. May you find your answers.
I have 2 redheaded grandmothers,(Maternal Grandmother had hair kike burgundy wine, blue eyes, Paternal Grandmother had hair like a copper penny, grey eyes, Mother blonde hair/grey eyes, father dark hair, but fair skin, green eyes) I don’t have red hair, more light brown naturally, have hazel eyes but extremely fair skin. If I go out into the sunlight in the Spring or Summer, I will blister. Usually red hair skips a generation, with that said, I didn’t inherit the red hair, what is the likely hood that I have RH Negative blood? BTW, I hate needles so am putting off giving a blood sample to find out.
I am Iranian with brown hair and brown eyes and am a O negative.
Iam o- With no freckles hazel which means both blue and green my mom was rh positive does this make me a dying breed I have been confirmed rh –
My immediate family is all rh negative. I am O negative.
However, none of us have red hair, blue, or green eyes.
My ancestors were “Persian”.
I have dark brown/black eyes and hair.
I cannot find any evidence, or link, or anything except theories between all the RH negatives.
Why are my family and I so different from majority of Rh negatives?
was this a mutation? a total coincidence? is there a real genetic link?
I’m O neg. My hair is also brn/blk with brn/blk eyes, and my skin is golden. When I’m in the sun a burn easily that I have to cover up!
Look into the New Zealand Celctics of the Maori tribe who were fair skinned with Red Hair and Green eyes- they date back to Persia & mixed with various native tribes across the world which spread the RH negative blood type.
I am O negative,
I’m from Mexico but my father’s ancestry is from Basque Country
My hair is mahogany color, my eyes dark brown, and I have freckles and withe skin
I have Red hair and its the bright red hair you see in paintings..some call it Tisian….I have pale white skin with No Freckles..Green eyes..no brown flecks at all in them…and I have AB- blood type, confirmed by the military…my background is Romanian..southern area. NO I am not Jewish..
My Mom has got to be the rarest person on earth. She has red hair, blue eyes, freckles EVERYWHERE and AB- blood. AB- blood in Caucasian people occur 1% of the time. Red hair and blue eyes are rare enough, THAT by itself occurs in less than 1% of the population. And the funniest part is, neither of my grandparents (Her parents) have red hair, my grandmother has brown-blondish hair, and my grandpa has black hair. I am her eldest daughter, she has 3 kids. Me, and my younger brother and sister. I don’t know my blood type, or theirs. We are all biracial. Our Dad is black, he lived in Jamacia and moved to Canada when he was 14. My Mom is who-knows-how-many-times-Canadian. Her history goes back centuries. But we know she is Irish and Scottish. My sister and I both have Irish Middle names. (Mine: Patrice my Sister: Iris) I’m not sure about my brother. His middle names are: Daken, Jude. We all have 2 middle names, My Mom only has one though. My Dad has O- blood I think. Both of my parents have rare blood types, but I think I have O- because it probably is the more dominate gene. My little sister, on the other hand, is a mystery on her own, she has blue eyes. She has darker skin than mine, but not by much. We are both very tan while my brother is so dark, he is easily black. I, am so pale I look white. But I identify as black, and I am black. I’m not half of one. I wish biracial was a race, I would jump into the group immediatly. I am whole of each and I choose black. I mean, I could choose white because of my skin. I am sort of tan, with a very distinctive olive undertone. My sister too, but she is darker than me. Back on topic, I have a very rare family, and because I am a drastic form of biracial, it makes my appearance even more intersting. And to add to that, my Mom is rare.
I have strawberry blond hair. Frecles. I used to joke that the only tan I ever had was when my freckles merged. Light blond eyelashes, eyebrows, …My child carrot red became more strawberry…so embarrassing, hopefully we are adults, Gyno said the baby got there red from mother…I’ve shaved since then was really embarrassing..
I am 0- rh- left handed born with black hair grey eyes by the time I was 6 months old I had light blonde hair with BBY blue eyes when I reached puberty my completion stayed ivory and I started getting freckles my hair turned strawberry blonde with red undertones and my eyes turned hazel for the most part but now my eyes change constantly mainly based on my mood and range from BBY blue to a dark green some days I have what I call sunflowers in my eyes because they are yellow around my iris. I was adopted so I don’t know my heritage
It sounds like you don’t like the white part of you to identify as black when you are not one or the other but your own thing or both at once. I know it’s a trend now to be black but no matter how much you don’t associate with your white side you’re still not going to be more black than white, your blood is half. 1 egg 1 sperm.
Please use at least your first name in future comments as requested above.
I’m a Rh – and I also have red hair, fair skin, freckles, and blue eyes……..
A- blue eyes, strawberry blonde, freckles, daughter is A-, red curly hair, green eyes, freckles, and we don’t tan. We burn, and freckle.
I am too, i wish I could find family/hope
I’m A- natural redhead, very blue eyes and oh the freckles!! Both my parents and my brother have brown hair and brown eyes. I believe my Father has A- blood as well my mom is O +
I am A-, have hazel-brown eyes, and before my hair turned pure white I had auburn red hair. I freckled in the sun. I am quite fair and burn very easily! My son is A+, but my daughter is A-. Her dad was O+, and she was my 3rd pregnancy. I lost a baby before her due to Rh complications. They didn’t have the Rhogam shot then. She was Blue immediately after birth, then was so “white” they were concerned about anemia, and then became severely jaundiced. This is very frequent with babies from -/+ parents where the mother is negative. She had problems even though she was negative like me! I had a very high titer count all through the pregnancy. She barely missed having to be transfused. All three of her sons are negative, with 2 redheads, one brown haired but with some highlights, one with blue eyes, one hazel, and one brown. My grandfather had red hair, as did my Mother, her sister and 2 of her brothers. They had hazel or brown eyes, and they freckled! My daughter is blonde with eyes that are hazel or green depending on her mood and what she is wearing! My mother was Danish and my dad Dutch. Nothing else that I know of.
The Rh- factor and red hair is an interesting genetic puzzle!
I am A-. I have red hair, freckles and blue eyes. My son is O-. He too is a red head with freckles and blue eyes. My daughter is A+. She has brown hair, pale skin and blue eyes. We have Irish ancestry.
I’m O neg, dark brown hair with orange shine on sun, brown-honey eyes, white skin with freckles on face and sholder, during winter I lose freckles. My ancestors are from here, Bosnia, Balkan, Europa.
I am a B- female with red hair, green eyes and freckles. Interestingly, my father who has Irish ancestry, and has red hair and green eyes, is A+. My mother is also B-, she is of Italian ancestry but has black hair and hazel eyes. She is not fair or freckly but she tans slowly and is not what I would call olive. My redhaired brother is also rh negative.
O NEGATIVE brown hair and green eyes
Born in Manila. Spanish parents. Barcelona and Basque of spain ancestry. English , french great great grand parents. Dark wavy hair, orange when bleached. Freckles. Dark eyes. 52 now. Miscarried. Born AB- . Blood transfusion when i was born and almost died.
I’m A-. I have natural blonde hair. (All over) and blue / green eyes ,they change, too.Light freckles in sun. Strange to me all of the changing blue/green/hazel eyes in Rh negatives!
Born in mla. Spanish parents. Barcelona and basque decents. English french great great grand parents. Born AB-. Blood transfusion as a baby. Almost died. Dark curly hair. Bleach turns my hair orange. Dark eyes. Miscarried . Always felt different.
I am O-. I have brown hair (dyed blonde), with red highlights in the sun, freckles and lots of moles everywhere, fair skin, brown eyes with a little green on the bottom. I am Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Baltic, Iberian, East European and a little Italian.
I am a B-, green-eyed, freckled, coppery redhead. However, my eyes were blue until around the age of twelve.
My B- mother was a brown-eyed brunette. My father was O+, blue-eyed redhead.
I have two A+ children, one green-eyed brunette with light freckles and one blue-eyed blonde without freckles. Their father is A+ with very dark brown hair and very light brown eyes. I had to have the special injections during pregnancy to keep my body from rejecting my babies.
Genetics seem kind of crazy in my family.
I am O- with brown hair and brown eyes, however my eyes change colors with my mood, brown when I’m happy, hazel when im upset and when i’m stressed out they are black. I don’t handle stress well, I tend to withdraw.
I had freckles when I was a kid, lots of freckles, but after I had kids they went away. I’m darker skinned and I never really burn from the sun.
My grandparents on my moms came from Germany. My great great grandfather on my dads side was a French Canadian fur trap that had 2 wives. From what we know about him is he had blue eyes and red hair.
Red hair, blue eyes, B- blood, and left handed
I am A negative. My hair is black at the folicle and grows out with deep red hi-lights, when in the sun. My skin is fairly pale, and I have fairly thin skin (you can see my veins on certain areas of my skin). I am 55 – and while I have new growth that is white (this has be going on for about 5 years) my hair looks predominantly black, still. I have thin lips – moderate size nose, soft jaw line and fairly flat face (except for my nose). I am adopted and know nothing about my family history). Our daughter recently took a test from 23 and me, and found out she was 100% European, with 38% German/French ancestry – and 30% British. Mine was a closed adoption – but I do remember my adoptive mother thinking I was French (with no hard evidence, however). my eyes were dark brown for years – the past 15 years, they are a deep hazel brown – with forest green highlights. From a distance, they still look brown. When I was younger, I tanned easily and would get quite dark. Anyone have any ideas of my truer ancestoral identity?
Well maybe im asian mixed carried O- with dark brown hair and eyes. Im Chinese decendants from my mother (Rh-) married with Indonesian minahasa probably came from polinesian (Rh+), beyond that I don’t know really much. I don’t have freckles but big pores and oily face. Hard to describe where I came from, my skin are pale white than standard Chinese men and women, more like Korean celebrity but lighter and thin skin so you can see my veins on it
I have very dark brown hair with piercing blue eyes which are often grey. I’m of Scottish decent and am AB rh. Negative. My mother is Onegative and my grandfather is also AN Negative
I have red hair, blue eyes, freckles and 0-. Both my parents have 0-. My mother has red hair and my father mostly brown with some reddish highlights. He grew a red beard. Of course all my brothers are 0- and red have and freckles. My little brother more light strawberry blonde. I am 53% English/Welsh, 23% Irish/Scottish and the rest Norwegian/Swedish
I am Moorish In the heredity of Basque Spaniard come from Arab with A RH negative I have dark skin and brown eyes and brown-reddish waving hair I try to look where everyone comes I don’t see much of my clans.
i have red hair and blue eyes and my blood type is AB negative. how rare am i??
I have red hair, brown eyes, freckles, and am O-
I have red hair, blue eyes, light freckles, left handed (the only one like me in my family) with rh- blood. (Which I do believe my mom, grandmother and great grandmother had)
Red hair, blue eyes, light freckles on arms and shoulders, fair skin but tan well, O- blood. Anglo-Saxon and Native American ancestry. I’m the only blue eyed redhead in my family and the only one with O- blood. Brothers and sisters have either O+ or AB blood, and all are brunettes. Father was O+ With blonde hair that turned black in his 20’s, blue eyes and mother was AB- with auburn that turned brunette in her 40’s with hazel eyes. My mother and father both have Anglo-Saxon and Native American ancestory.
Am A- and have red hair and blue eyes. I say surely their is a correlation of some kind there connecting it all.
I have red hair, blue eyes with a yellow ring near the pupil. Sometimes my eyes turn green, I have Freckles and I have A+ RhD+ blood, my mum and sister have O RhD negative blood.
Me tooo.Auburn hair freckles green eyes and ab- blood. rare and beautiful
i have redhair blue eyes AB+RH- blood..just been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma at 40 years of age
I am AB- or ABO-. I have multicoloured hair consisting of blonde, light brown, dark brown, black, and a few red highlights when in the sun. Blue eyes, one more of a greenish shade than blue. I have a few moles on the arms and legs, the biggest one on the centre of the wrist. I have curly hair and is usually in a ponytail but sometimes in buns and braids. Ancestry French, Spanish, German, African, Indian, Russian, English and American.
Redhair, blue eyes, and AB- blood type. I keep trying to explain to my doctor that I am a genetic freak. My heritage is all from Northern Europe (Norway, Normandy, France)
Redhair, blue eyes, and AB- blood type, light freckles, right handed. I keep trying to explain to my doctor that I am a genetic freak. My heritage is all from Northern Europe (Norway, Normandy, France)
Rh negative with reddish wavy hair. My body hairs are more pronouncedly Titian red, but it wasn’t till I grew my beard out, that about the 5th month I really started to see my deep orange moustache. My beard below is more deep cherry and my head is like caramel bronze. With my beard it is easier to read what my head hair is like. It is interesting how Rome has influenced men strongly to shave, up till recent years. They call gold a barberous relic. So the slurring of beards has been going on a long time under Rome, and it is because of the need to divorce people from their bodies which has their history recorded in them, and connects people to places and times.
I have B negative blood type. I have light, wavy, copper red hair. I have white fair skin with little to no freckles when I stay out of the sun. I have light golden freckles when out in the sun regularly during the summer. I have amber/yellow eyes that match the color of my hair at times. People find this unnerving.
My mother has B negative blood with brown hair and blue-green eyes. Her heritage is Scottish, Irish, Welsh and German. My father has O positive blood with blond hair and hazel eyes. His heritage is Croatian from the island of Korcula, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and maybe a little Dutch. I have hundreds of cousins with red hair on his side.
I don’t see many people with my eye color period much less red heads with my eye color plus B negative blood type. Throughout my life, I’ve received various types of reactions from different groups and nationalities. Many treat me like a pariah while others try to own me in some way. It’s very odd. I’ve always been bullied, sexually targeted or totally ostracized where ever I’ve lived from childhood to current age of 50. I never understood why until I began researching over the last couple years.
I have A- blood type, have a few freckles, green eyes (sometimes changes to blue), black hair (was born dirty blond, gradually changed to red, then brown then black), and left handed. My mom is AB-, has freckles, light brown hair (reddish brown as a child), green eyes, and left handed. My brother is B-, has no freckles, brown hair (born blonde), blue eyes, and is left handed. I don’t know if the left handed part is related to rh – blood type, but considering its rarity I decided it could be relevant.
O- i have dark brown hair n dark brown eyes. My brother was o- dark brown hair red beard n tanned but had fair complexion and rosey cheeks. Other brother A- blonde-really blonde med complexion brown eyes tanned good blonde body hair as adult. Dad was o- dark skin dark hair n eyes mom A- blonde fair complexion green eyes. Note that everyone in my family all 4 of my grandparents were all rh- O n A dads parents both o- produced all o- children and moms were o- and a- producing 1 A- 3 o- children. When my dad n his family passed there was alot of o- Blood lost 😢
I am B- with German – Czech ancestry. I have auburn hair with hazel speckled eyes and light freckles until im in the sun.
Not all of us have red hair and light colored eyes! I have dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. Before the touch of gray (I am older), my hair had auburn highlights in the sunlight. My blood type is A-. I am a Heinz 57 — Scandinavian, German, Czech, Italian, etc. (My ancestors visited all of Europe … lol). My Dad had brown hair and dark brown eyes and was A- as well …. with Scandinavian heritage.