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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def genes(self):
 """ Return Gene object for all genes which overlap this variant. """

        if self._genes is None:
            self._genes = self.ensembl.genes_at_locus(
                self.contig, self.start, self.end)
        return self._genes