diff --git a/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/component/gnomad/GnomadFrequency.tsx b/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/component/gnomad/GnomadFrequency.tsx
index cf615e45fda..c0478b1d93e 100644
--- a/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/component/gnomad/GnomadFrequency.tsx
+++ b/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/component/gnomad/GnomadFrequency.tsx
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import * as React from "react";
 
 import {GnomadSummary} from "../../model/GnomadSummary";
 import GnomadFrequencyTable, {GnomadTableColumnName} from "./GnomadFrequencyTable";
-import { significantDigits } from "../../util/FormatUtils";
 
 const GNOMAD_POPULATION_NAME: {[key:string]: string} = {
     "African" : "afr",
@@ -146,7 +145,11 @@ export default class GnomadFrequency extends React.Component<GnomadFrequencyProp
                 display = <span>0</span>;
             } else {
                 // show frequency as number with 4 significant digits
-                display = <span>{significantDigits(result['Total'].alleleFrequency, 4)}</span>;
+                var significantDigitsFormatter = new Intl.NumberFormat("en", { 
+                    minimumSignificantDigits: 1,
+                    maximumSignificantDigits:4
+                });
+                display = <span>{significantDigitsFormatter.format(result['Total'].alleleFrequency)}</span>;
             }
 
             overlay = () => <GnomadFrequencyTable data={sorted} gnomadUrl={gnomadUrl} />;
diff --git a/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/util/FormatUtils.ts b/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/util/FormatUtils.ts
index bf8c6db3c7b..cba94b03312 100644
--- a/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/util/FormatUtils.ts
+++ b/packages/react-mutation-mapper/src/util/FormatUtils.ts
@@ -14,17 +14,4 @@ export function formatPercentValue(rate: number, fractionDigits: number = 1)
 
 export function numberOfLeadingDecimalZeros(value: number) {
     return -Math.floor( (Math.log10(value) / Math.log10(10)) + 1);
-}
-
-export function significantDigits(data: number, length: number) {
-    // data: the original number, length: how many significant digits in return
-    // refer to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27220908
-    if (data === 0) {
-        return data;
-    }
-    var numDigits = Math.ceil(Math.log10(Math.abs(data)));
-    var rounded =
-        Math.round(data * Math.pow(10, length - numDigits)) *
-        Math.pow(10, numDigits - length);
-    return rounded.toFixed(Math.max(length - numDigits, 0));
 }
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