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Our aim is to identify mutations in a Chinese family with congenital cataract.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods:<\/jats:bold> A four-generation Chinese family diagnosed with congenital cataract was recruited in West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Genomic DNA was extracted from the peripheral blood of these participants. All coding exons and flanking regions were amplified and sequenced, and the variants were validated using Sanger sequencing. AlphaFold2 was used to predict possible protein structural changes in this variant.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> The proband had congenital nuclear cataract with nystagmus. A heterozygous variant c.233C &amp;gt; T was identified in exon 2 of the <jats:italic>CRYGD<\/jats:italic> gene in chromosome 2. This mutation resulted in a substitution of serine with phenylalanine at amino acid residue 78 (p.S78F). The variant might result in a less stable structure with a looser loop and broken hydrogen bond predicted by AlphaFold2, and this mutation was co-segregated with the disease phenotype in this family.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold> We described cases of human congenital cataract caused by a novel mutation in the <jats:italic>CRYGD<\/jats:italic> gene and provided evidence of further phenotypic heterogeneity associated with this variant. 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