Roughly 1 in 45 healthy Americans are carriers of the recessive trait, meaning they are missing one of the normal two copies of the gene.

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Mr. LINNELL: Ira, I have to say we've been on a million radio shows and the reference with which you show the length and ending of a song is truly a recessive trait in deejays, hosts, radio people.

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