Does blood group influence personality traits and familial similarities?

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The discussion confirms that blood group does not influence personality traits, with participants noting that blood types, including A, B, O, and Rh factors, have no established correlation with personality characteristics. One user highlights that while familial similarities in blood types exist, they do not extend to personality. Additionally, the proximity of the ABO blood group locus to personality-related genes is mentioned, but no evidence supports a direct effect. The consensus emphasizes focusing on epigenetics for any potential connections.

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is anyone`s blood group like his fathers? has blood group any affect on someones personality ?
 
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I have the same blood type as my father, but one of my brothers had the same principal type as my mother, but the opposite Rh-factor.

Blood type has nothing to do with personality.
 
FWIW - there a lot of blood groups beside the A,B,O antigens and the Rh factor antigen.

And. If there were an effect outside of the immune system (I know of none) the effect would be due to the fact that the locus (parking place on the chromosome) for the ABO group lay really close to the locus for some personality gene.

Based on what we know about epigenetics, I'd say look there first.
 

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