genetic variant

collocation in English

meaningsofgeneticandvariant

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genetic
adjective
uk
/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us
/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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variant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈveə.ri.ənt/us
/ˈver.i.ənt/
something that is slightly different from other ...
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(Definition ofgeneticandvariantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Phylogenetic analysis showed that rabies viruses isolated in foxes, dogs and humans belonged to a singlegeneticvariant.
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Among children receiving less maternal support, risks associated with the short allele of thegeneticvarianton behavioral inhibition were greater.
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For example, researchers may find that ageneticvariantassociated with a higher-than-average risk of a disease is more common in one population than another.
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Geneticvariantanalysis clearly discriminates the viruses circulating in these two areas and predicts their association with distinct lineages of this rabies virus strain.
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Those with ageneticvariantof neuregulin 1 tended to be more creative.
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The frequency of thisgeneticvariantis due to the survival of immune persons.
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Ageneticvariantthat is deleterious will not necessarily disappear immediately from a population.
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One study has found ageneticvariantin the gene to be associated with the personality trait neuroticism.
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These include the use of virus name / strain / isolation host-suffix / country of sampling / year of sampling /geneticvariantdesignation / isolate designation.
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Ageneticvariantthat accumulates more sugar and less starch in the ear is consumed as a vegetable and is called sweet corn.
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This form of cellular selection on genetic variants is an example of somatic selection.
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If genetic variants are polymorphisms, what size of sample will be required to detect them?
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Several genetic variants or strains adapted to different intermediate hosts were described.
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This study type asks if the allele of ageneticvariantis found more often than expected in individuals with the phenotype of interest (e.g. with the disease being studied).
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In such cases many genetic variants may by themselves not significantly increase susceptibility for the disorder and do so only when other interacting variants are present.
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Then these genetic variants must interact either directly or indirectly with the environment so that in the last analysis replication is differential.
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A key unknown is the extent to which genetic variants interact immunologically, and thus impact on epidemiology.
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Although the genetic variants underlying idiopathic autism have proven elusive so far, the future for this field looks promising.
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