People with blood type A have the A antigen. People with type B have the B antigen, while people with AB have both. People with type O blood have the H antigen, which is found on virtually all red blood cells and is the building block for the production of the antigens within the ABO blood group.
There are some who are H antigen deficient. This is known as h/h, Oh, or, most commonly, the Bombay Phenotype. It's very rare, affecting 1/10,000 people in India, where it was first discovered in 1952, and 1/1,000,000 people in Europe.
This phenotype can be the cause of confusion in paternity tests because these people are not only missing the H antigen, but because it is the basis of the A and B antigens, people with the Bombay Phenotype are missing these antigens too. For this reason, blood type Oh can be confused with blood type O, which is missing the A and B antigens but does contain the H antigen.
There are no ill effects of the Bombay Phenotype, but if someone with this blood type needs a blood transfusion, they must get one from someone else with the same blood type. Since it is missing the H antigen, they cannot accept type O blood. Because of this and the rarity of the blood type, most transfusions come from family members. These people can, however, donate blood to any member of the ABO blood group.

