Viewing single variant in MT-TW

Uncertain Significance (VUS)Not in ClinVar or MITOMAP — mtDNA classification needs case-level review

MT-TW:m.5556G>C

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Nomenclaturem.5556G>CchrMT:5556|Not in ClinVar

Typemitochondrial tRNA variant

InheritanceMitochondrial

gnomAD mtDNA

Absent

~56k genomes

MitoTIP

12.3 · Q3 possibly benign

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gnomad: gnomAD lookup failed: Error: gnomAD API error: 400

MITOMAPReported

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Disease: Mito encephalomyopathyReported as: heteroplasmicGenBank: 0 sequences

MITOMAP (mitomap.org), CC BY 3.0 · disease table as of 2026-10-07

Where it sits in the mitochondrial genome

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proteinrRNAtRNAouter ring H-strand · inner L-strandMITOMAP confirmedreported (as of 2026-10-07)

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AAGAGCCTTCAAAGCCCTCAGTAAGTTGCAATACTTAATTT

MT-TW

m.5536–5576 of the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (NC_012920.1); the boxed base is m.5556 G→C.

37 genes from Ensembl (rCRS numbering, matched to MITOMAP’s Gene Loci); landmarks and disease alleles from MITOMAP (CC BY 3.0). Circular layout after MitoWheel.

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Franklin (Genoox)

AI-powered curation

MITOMAP

mtDNA variant database · expect a security check

VarSome

Variant interpretation · expect a security check

OMIM

Gene & phenotype

gnomAD

mtDNA frequencies (v3.1)

UCSC Browser

Genome browser

m.5556G>C

Resolving variant against ClinVar, gnomAD and Ensembl…

MT-TW:m.5556G>C

Where it sits in the mitochondrial genome

Population Allele Frequencies

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MT-TW:m.5556G>C

Where it sits in the mitochondrial genome

Population Allele Frequencies

External Resources