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Here we reported a Chinese family with two affected siblings presented with antenatal occipital encephalocele, infantile onset retinal detachment, and pronounced high myopia at early childhood. Quartet whole exome sequencing was performed in this family and identified that both siblings carried novel compound heterozygous variants in the <jats:italic>COL18A1<\/jats:italic> gene (NM_001379500.1): the maternally inherited variant c.1222-1G&amp;gt;A at the consensus acceptor splice site of intron 8, and the paternally inherited frameshift variant c.3931_3932delinsT p.(Gly1311Serfs<jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>25) in the last exon. Both patients had successful surgical treatment for the occipital encephalocele soon after birth. They had normal neurocognitive outcome and good general conditions examined at the age of 7 years old for the elder sister and 4 years old for the younger brother. The younger brother developed infantile onset retinal detachment at 7 months of age while the sister had high myopia without signs of retinal detachment until 7 years old. 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