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The phrase "are a common trait" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used to describe characteristics that are frequently observed in a particular group or context, but it should be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "These behaviors are a common trait among successful leaders."
Alternatives: "are a frequent characteristic" or "are a typical feature."
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Striped hooves are a common trait, quite noticeable on Appaloosas, but not unique to the breed.
Hence, low HDL levels are a common trait in RA and SLE.
doi 10.1093/aob/mct250 Small seeds are a common trait in the large, cosmopolitan family Campanulaceae.
Our results indicate that gene expansions are a common trait in Leishmania genomes and represent an important force in the evolution of these parasites.
From these results, comparative analyses performed on Buchnera taken from other species of aphids, but also on other endosymbiotic bacteria, such as Blochmannia spp. from the carpenter ant or Wigglesworthia spp. from the tsetse fly would establish whether the results presented here are a common trait of the insect endosymbionts.
Arrays of variable number of tandem repeats (usually up to 6) are a common trait of MITE-like elements DINE1 (Yang and Barbash 2008), SGM (Miller et al. 2000), mini-me (Wilder and Hollocher 2001), and PERI (Kuhn and Heslop-Harrison 2011), described in Drosophila, and of MINE-2 in some Lepidoptera (Coates et al. 2011).
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Maybe it's just because you see that this is a common trait for all of us.
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