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outkast2 t1_it029i6 wrote

Reply to comment by 4BigData in Natural Selection Driven by the Black Death Linked to Modern-Day Autoimmune Disease: Analysis of DNA from over 200 remains shows that the Black Death selected for immune gene variants that are also risk factors for autoimmune conditions like Crohn's disease. by rjmsci

I'm glad to see this getting more acknowledgement because I mentioned the O type blood several times in the past and got heavily downvvoted.

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4BigData t1_it0dqzy wrote

>got heavily downvoted.

why? blood type envy? Being 0 negative has its drawbacks too, everybody wants your blood and it seems to be a permanent emergency-level scarcity of it

It's not that much fun to be remembered by society only when our blood is necessary, which seems to be always

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