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Usually recessive, unless it runs in your family. Otherwise many people would be short.

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Actually the above answer is wrong! Achondroplasia is a dominant genetic condition, This shows that names of biological/genetic conditions do not always mean what they would in normal usage. This is a case of recessive alleles driving themselves into the populations gene pool because the dominant gene is deleterious. Polydactal condition ( extra fingers/toes ) is also a dominant condition.

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