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Geneticists are confident that six of them are classically inherited either dominantly or recessively.

From Scientific American • Sep. 17, 2015

First, the aim of detecting HI alleles through deficiency mapping is not to detect alleles that cause lethality by their absence but to uncover those alleles that act recessively.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2011