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Is that the only thing they're looking for when they say they need a match? Just blood type? Or is that just one of the larger factors?



Compatible donors need to have both a compatible blood type and the same leukocyte antigens. The later is usually dictated by your heredity and can only be determined by an expensive test. Race is the biggest qualifier that can be used to exclude segments of the population, blood type would be the second largest qualifier but they seem to skip this step and go straight for the expensive tests.




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