Variant Quotes

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. - Tanith Lee

Generally, 85 percent of the tests come back as the sporadic, or naturally occurring form, 14 percent come back as the familial form that is passed down through generations and less than 1 percent come back as the variant form. There's never been a variant case acquired in the United States. - Tom Shanahan

Gene delivery is complicated because it's difficult for us to know how to change the properties of the virus. So, in this study, we did it the same way nature does it. By using random mutation, we were able to get about 10 million different variants. Now, we have a lot of versions of the virus to choose from. And we've selected about a half dozen of them that we are focusing on. - David Schaffer

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. - Michael Gambon

African-Americans who have this variant are almost certain to develop heart attacks. If you remove this gene variant from the population you would remove almost 20 percent of heart attacks in Africans-Americans. - Kari Stefansson

African Americans with the variant come very close to facing certainty of having a heart attack. - Kari Stefansson

A common gene variant conferring elevated risk of (type 2 diabetes) has been earnestly sought by the genetics community for many years. - Kari Stefansson