rmed for many leukemias and lymphomas, among other diseases. If a person receives bone marrow from someone who is a different ABO type (e.g., a type A patient receives a type O bone marrow), the patient's blood type will eventually convert to the donor's type.Some blood types are associated with inheritance of other diseases; for example, the Kell antigen is sometimes associated with McLeod syndrome.[9] Certain blood types may affect susceptibility to infections, an example being the resistance to specific malaria species seen in individuals lacking the Duffy antigen.[10] The Duffy antigen, presumably as a result of natural selection, is less common in ethnic groups from areas with a high incidence of malaria.[11]ABO blood group system[සංස්කරණය]ABO blood group system: diagram showing the carbohydrate chains that determine the ABO blood groupප්‍රධාන ලිපිය: ABO blood group systemThe ABO system is the most important blood-group system in human-blood transfusion. The associated anti-