rare variant

collocation in English

meaningsofrareandvariant

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rare
adjective
uk
/reər/us
/rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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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 ofrareandvariantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This figure also had ararevariantversion.
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The icon is from the 19th century and is of ararevariant.
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Ararevariantwas made in the form of a light truck.
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There is an extremelyrarevariantof this species in which all the orange in the plumage is replaced by white.
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There are also very rare variants such as the same title.
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Ambidexterity is a well-known butrarevariantof cross-dominance, but cross-dominant people may also be left or right-handed rather than ambidextrous.
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When population expansion was taken into account, only deletion variation had significant excesses of rare variants, while insertions did not.
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There are two rare variants that use the roller cam principle.
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A few rare variants place noon and midnight at the right and left sides.
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However, groups could harbor different, though perhaps overlapping, sets of rare variants, which would reduce contrasts between groups in the incidence of the disease.
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Each of these "k" inputs is a strictly additive trait that depends on a set of common or rare variants.
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However, many variant callers are being actively developed that are specifically designed for cancer data and aim to identify rare variants present in smaller subclonal populations.
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Another hypothesis is that common diseases are caused by rare variants that are synthetically linked to common variants.
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Most of the disease-associated alleles discovered to date have been rare, and rare variants are more likely than common variants to be differentially distributed among groups distinguished by ancestry.
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