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What determines my blood type?

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Glycolipids: Carbohydrate/sugar molecules attached to lipids in the red cell membrane determine the major blood types. There are at least 29 different blood groups systems and hundreds of different blood types. See this site for more info. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/nbk2264/.

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