What You Need to Know About Basque Blood Types

The Basques are unique in many ways, but especially when it comes to blood types. Researchers have found some uncommon blood types to be fairly common in the Basque Country. Anne-Marie tells you about these Basque blood types and theories on why the Basques have such unique blood.

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[suewolfe]

I’m O- with Rh- factor. I can sense things, I can feel if someone around me is sick, I’m sensitive to heat. I have had spirits visit me. And I’m an introvert. I like solitude, I have always felt different from everyone else. I’m a square peg for sure.

[kimpintar]

I'm A negative and the RH negative runs through on both my Mum and Dad's line 😊 Ancestors are from England and Scotland 🙏

[roxyaedoo]

All of my family (Galician/Basque) is O+. Everyone assumed my brother and I would be O+ until my bro needed surgery and we were tested. Turns out, we were both O negative. Everyone blamed the basque side 🤷🏻‍♀️

[MaddyDominicanaDiscovers]

Gave you a thumbs up girl! I am 100% Dominicana and my Ancestry DNA shows a good amount of Basque Country, and O Type.

[jodeelanari]

I recently found out that I am Basque (most likely from Spanish Conquistadors in NM). My sister and I are A-. Our dad is O-. None of us knew we were Rh negative until I had my first child and my blood was tested. She ended up being B-. This is cool to think our Rh negative factor may have come from our Basque ancestry.

[juanc.]

Hello Hella, greetings from Basque Country. You can walk around any town in the Basque Country and nobody will think you are a foreigner, tell me if I am right, you have a strong character, you are a woman for whom the family environment is the most important thing and you have plenty of courage to face all the obstacles that life presents you, right?

[lovesing]

Type O blood is the most common. I think you mean RH- only. From most common to least: O, A, B, AB, O-, A-, B-, and AB-.

[michelleannvincent]

I am not Basque but I have a great interest and have ended up living in a few communities that were founded by Basque people. I'm AB- RH- so naturally it led me here. <3 Great video thank you!!

[Nofretari]

I am A - with ancestors from Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Sweden, German, Greece and Egypt. I also have Cherokee heritage on my mother’s side.

[OffGridInvestor]

My sister is O negative and I'm O positive. We had a VERY strong gene for black curly hair that come from the basque relative and I still get the odd curl coming thru with no other curly hair in any other relative. For 1/32th those last genes are hanging on very well! My grandfathers brother still had solid black curls as did his mother all the way back to the original woman born sometime in the 1830s. She was born in Granada Spain and buried in Tasmania Australia.

[livinglight]

Just found out recently I’m Basque! Now everything is beginning to make a lot of sense. Mysterious & unique 💯

[wesmont]

Whenever I see a Basque restaurant I know where I'm having dinner that night

[jopalo]

Type O is from the hunter gatherer’s. Type A comes from agriculture.
You would like to know of the possible Arminian-Basque connection. Many Arminian words are interchangeable with Basque words. Look into the works of Edward Spencer Johnson. There are a handful of people who believe Basque and Arminian are 2 dialects of an older language.

[surgicalninja]

Spanish descendant here with O- blood type. I am super interested in this topic.

[annafields]

This is so interesting. I also have O-, as does my son. My Basque ancestry is from my grandma via Mexico-and then Arizona. Her last name was Lizarraga, which is an area in the Basque Country, I believe.

[LenaleAmerica]

I believe I got RH negative blood from American Indian, Choctaw, on my father's side. I saw that on a documentary about Rh blood orgin's. I have all the characteristic's of Rh negative blood type. When I read that in a article, I couldn't believe it. It was eerily accurate and explained a lot.

[andrewhammel]

Type O is like the absence of certain proteins. So its likely the original thing. Type A, and type B, are the presence of certain protiens. So both are likely the later mutations.

[kt]

When pregnant I was told I was O- Rh- and that I had to have a card or offered a bracelet to alert medical people about the fact that I can donate but I have to have the same blood type. But when I went to donate blood last year they said I was O+. I really don’t think you can change blood types so now I need to go get tested again but I hate needles and blood.

[adlibby]

I’m O- and just found out that I have some Basque blood. Interesting.

[mnmdisney]

We Rh negative folks have it wierd. We physically different.