This document describes a bioinformatics approach for prioritizing disease-causing human mitochondrial DNA mutations. It uses a "disease score" that averages the probabilities from six pathogenicity prediction methods to determine if a mutation is deleterious or benign. The approach was trained on 53 known disease-associated mutations and tested on 1872 observed mutations, achieving a disease score cutoff of 0.4311. Mutations meeting criteria of being rare, conserved, predicted pathogenic and occurring at low variability sites were prioritized. When tested on 21 tumor samples, 8/268 prioritized nonsynonymous mutations were tumor-specific, confirming the approach's ability to identify potentially pathogenic mutations.