> At this point, my blood type changes to the blood type of my donor. And my blood will now have my donor’s DNA, not my own.
That's actually really fascinating. This perpetuates for life? This would seem to imply that a person who's received a transplant will, thirty years later, be walking around with two separate sets of DNA, as the other cells in the body presumably would not change.
Given that DNA is (indirectly) responsible for the way that cells communicate with one another (among other things), I wonder if this dichotomy creates any complications in other ways. (Not counting potential graft-host disease rejection - I'm talking about further down the line).
That's actually really fascinating. This perpetuates for life? This would seem to imply that a person who's received a transplant will, thirty years later, be walking around with two separate sets of DNA, as the other cells in the body presumably would not change.
Given that DNA is (indirectly) responsible for the way that cells communicate with one another (among other things), I wonder if this dichotomy creates any complications in other ways. (Not counting potential graft-host disease rejection - I'm talking about further down the line).