NM_005957.5:c.*4074_*4077dupAAAA

Variant summary

Our verdict is Likely benign.
-4 Likely Benign
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The variant received -4 classification points (ACMG Germline Pathogenicity v2019). BS2

The NM_005957.5(MTHFR):c.*4074_*4077dupAAAA variant causes a 3 prime UTR change. Note: allele frequency estimates from gnomAD may be inaccurate for this variant type (MNP or indel longer than 3 bp) due to technology limitations. The variant allele was found at a cumulative frequency of 0.000471 (AC=67) in the gnomAD database across 142,222 control chromosomes, including 3 homozygotes. The grpmax filtering allele frequency (95% CI) is 0.0067. No clinical diagnostic laboratories have submitted clinical-significance assessments for this variant to ClinVar.

Frequency

Genomes: 𝑓 0.00047 ( 3 hom., cov: 0)
Exomes 𝑓: 0.0 ( 0 hom. )
Failed GnomAD Quality Control

Consequence

MTHFR
NM_005957.5 3_prime_UTR

Scores

Not classified

Clinical Significance

Not reported in ClinVar

Conservation

PhyloP100: 0.308

Publications

3 publications found
Variant links:
Genes affected
MTHFR (HGNC:7436): (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase) The protein encoded by this gene catalyzes the conversion of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, a co-substrate for homocysteine remethylation to methionine. Genetic variation in this gene influences susceptibility to occlusive vascular disease, neural tube defects, colon cancer and acute leukemia, and mutations in this gene are associated with methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency.[provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009]
MTHFR Gene-Disease associations (from GenCC):
  • homocystinuria due to methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency
    Inheritance: AR Classification: DEFINITIVE, STRONG, SUPPORTIVE Submitted by: Natera, PanelApp Australia, Orphanet, G2P, ClinGen, Labcorp Genetics (formerly Invitae)
C1orf167 (HGNC:25262): (chromosome 1 open reading frame 167) Implicated in coronary artery disease and stroke. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jun 2026]

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new If you want to explore the variant's impact on the transcript NM_005957.5, check out the Mutation Effect Viewer. This is especially useful for frameshift variants or if you want to visualize the effect of exon loss / intron retention.

Classification according to ACMG Germline Pathogenicity v2019

Classification was made for transcript:

Our verdict: Likely_benign. The variant received -4 points.

BS2Observed in healthy adult
≥2 homozygotes in gnomAD — observed in healthy adults (BS2); GnomAD homozygous count = 3.

Variant Effect in Transcripts

Automated classification analysis was done for transcript: NM_005957.5. You can select a different transcript below to see updated classification assignments.

RefSeq Transcripts

MTHFR NM_005957.5
MANE Select
HGVSc / HGVSpc.*4074_*4077dupAAAA
Exon rankExon 12 of 12
3_prime_UTR
Prot: NP_005948.3
C1orf167 NM_001010881.2
MANE Select
HGVSc / HGVSpc.3568-770_3568-767dupTTTT
Exon rankIntron 16 of 20
intron
Prot: NP_001010881.1UniProt: Q5SNV9-1
MTHFR NM_001330358.2
HGVSc / HGVSpc.*4074_*4077dupAAAA
Exon rankExon 12 of 12
3_prime_UTR
Prot: NP_001317287.1UniProt: P42898-2

Ensembl Transcripts

MTHFR ENST00000376590.9
TSL:1MANE Select
HGVSc / HGVSpc.*4074_*4077dupAAAA
Exon rankExon 12 of 12
3_prime_UTR
Prot: ENSP00000365775.3UniProt: P42898-1
MTHFR ENST00000376592.6
TSL:1
HGVSc / HGVSpc.*4074_*4077dupAAAA
Exon rankExon 12 of 12
3_prime_UTR
Prot: ENSP00000365777.1UniProt: P42898-1
C1orf167 ENST00000688073.1
MANE Select
HGVSc / HGVSpc.3568-770_3568-767dupTTTT
Exon rankIntron 16 of 20
intron
Prot: ENSP00000510540.1UniProt: Q5SNV9-1

Frequencies

Allele frequencies (AF), counts (AC/AN), homozygotes and coverage

Common (AF > 0.05 / Hom > 5)
Rare (AF ≤ 0.0001 / Hom ≤ 1)
Global population databases 5 sources
GnomAD3 genomes
AF: 0.000443
AC:63
Hom:2
AN:142192
Cov:0
GnomAD4 exome Warning
AF: 0.00
AC:0
Hom:0
AN:4
Cov:0
GnomAD4 genome
AF: 0.000471
AC:67
Hom:3
AN:142222
Cov:0
TOPMed (Bravo)
Warning
AF: 0.000310
AC:82
Hom:1
AN:264690
ALFA (dbGaP/dbSNP Allele Frequency Aggregator)
AF: 0.00
AC:0
Hom:600
AN:5410
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ClinVar

Not reported in ClinVar

Computational Scores

Mutation Taster
N/A100/0polymorphism
PhyloP100
Benign0.31
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Splicing Scores

No splicing scores have been computed for this variant.

Find out detailed SpliceAI scores and Pangolin per-transcript scores at spliceailookup.broadinstitute.org

MaxEntScan Visualizer can be used to analyze the impact of this mutation on the neighboring sequence.

MaveDB functional evidence

MaveDB is a public repository of laboratory assays that test the effect of thousands of variants at once — treat this as supporting research data and interpret it with great caution; it is not a clinical classification.

No MaveDB functional evidence found for this variant.

Publications

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