variants
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Like hands, all amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the proteins in the body's cells.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The number of model variants will also be streamlined to boost profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
This technique examines the portions of DNA that contain instructions for making proteins, allowing scientists to search across thousands of genes for unusual variants shared by affected individuals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Google DeepMind on Tuesday introduced the AlphaGenome Atlas, a dataset of predictions for the effects of every possible single-letter change across the human genome—roughly 9 billion variants in total.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
With just three genes in question, there would be six alleles or gene variants in total—three from the mother and three from the father.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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