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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 read_json_file(cls, path):
 """ Construct a VariantCollection from a JSON file. """

        with open(path, 'r') as f:
            json_string = f.read()
        return cls.from_json(json_string)