variants

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But men with specific genetic mutations called BRCA2 variants develop faster-growing and aggressive cancers at an earlier age, making screening for them justified.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Firms like Apollo, Blackstone and Blue Owl began selling private variants of the funds in recent years, in part to avoid the sharp stock moves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Maybach was reorganized as Mercedes-Maybach—a sub-brand building small numbers of technically evolved, superluxury variants of mainline products.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

That work found that ancient southern Africans carried genetic variation outside the range seen in living people and identified Homo sapiens specific variants that may shed light on adaptation and evolution within Africa.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

Farmers had been using this phenomenon for millennia—breeding and interbreeding animals to produce natural variants, and selecting these variants over multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee