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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 _updateMetadata(self, variantFile):
 """ Updates the metadata for his variant set based on the specified variant file """

        metadata = self._getMetadataFromVcf(variantFile)
        if self._metadata is None:
            self._metadata = metadata