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MTFMT

Chr 15q22.31

mitochondrial methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase

Aliases:
FMT1
MANE:
ENST00000220058.9

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Ataxia and cerebellar anomalies - narrow panel

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Fetal anomalies

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Inherited white matter disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Intellectual disability

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Mitochondrial disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 15

    0.83
  • mitochondrial complex I deficiency, nuclear type 27

    0.78
  • Leigh syndrome

    0.51
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.51
  • hereditary disease

    0.47
  • Cytochrome C oxidase-negative muscle fibers

    0.34
  • Poor speech

    0.34
  • Inability to walk by childhood/adolescence

    0.34
  • Decreased activity of mitochondrial complex I

    0.34
  • mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation disorder

    0.34

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase, mitochondrial

Methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase that formylates methionyl-tRNA in mitochondria and is crucial for translation initiation

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

Not for sole clinical decision-making. Always verify against primary sources.