diff --git a/VariantValidator/modules/vvMixinCore.py b/VariantValidator/modules/vvMixinCore.py
index 6076f659..f639b51a 100644
--- a/VariantValidator/modules/vvMixinCore.py
+++ b/VariantValidator/modules/vvMixinCore.py
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ def validate(self, batch_variant, selected_assembly, select_transcripts, transcr
             self.batch_list = []
             for queries in batch_queries:
                 queries = queries.strip()
+                queries = queries.replace('"', '')
+                queries = queries.replace("'", "")
                 query = Variant(queries)
                 self.batch_list.append(query)
                 logger.info("Submitting variant with format %s", queries)