{"id":13,"count":12,"description":"Health differences between rh negative and rh positive people are being more and more discussed.\r\nOne of the studies worth noting is ours:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0141362\" target=\"_blank\">Worse Health Status and Higher Incidence of Health Disorders in Rhesus Negative Subjects<\/a>\r\n\r\nPreviously many studies have indicated health differences between rh negative and rh positive indivuduals in general, but our study also points out that rh positive heterozygotes do best health wise.\r\nA <strong>heterozygote <\/strong>is an individual having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes, and so giving rise to varying offspring.\r\nIn our case it would be an individual whose phenotype is Rh D Positive (+), but the genotype is Rh D Positive\/Negative (+\/-) carrying the Rh D negative gene recessively.\r\nA <strong>homozygote<\/strong> is an individual having two of the same allele of a particular gene or genes.\r\nAn <strong>rh positive homozygote<\/strong> is and insividual whose phenotype is Rh D Positive (+) and the genotype is <strong>Rh D Positive\/Positive<\/strong> (+\/+).\r\nAn <strong>Rh D Negative individual<\/strong> can only be a homozygote as the gene is recessive so all rh negatives are <strong>phenotype -<\/strong> and <strong>genotype -\/-<\/strong>.\r\n\r\n<strong>The heterozygous advantage describes the case in which the heterozygote genotype has a higher relative fitness than either the homozygote dominant or homozygote recessive genotype.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIn plain simple English it means that\r\n\r\nRh positives who are Rh negative recessively are the healthiest.\r\nThen come rh positives who are not rh negative recessively.\r\nThe least healthy individuals are rh negative people.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/rhnegative\/rh-negative-health\/","name":"Rh Negative Health","slug":"rh-negative-health","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}