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Loss-of-function variants resulting in haploinsufficiency of <jats:italic>MYCN<\/jats:italic>, which encodes a protein with a basic helix\u2013loop\u2013helix domain causes Feingold syndrome (OMIM 164280, ORPHA 391641). We present an occurrence of esophageal atresia (EA) with tracheoesophageal fistula in siblings from a three-generation family affected by variable expressivity of <jats:italic>MYCN<\/jats:italic> mutation p.(Ser90GlnfsTer176) as a diagnostic effect of searching the cause of familial esophageal atresia using NGS-based whole-exome sequencing (WES). All of our affected patients showed microcephaly and toe syndactyly, which were frequently reported in the literature. Just one patient exhibited clinodactyly. None of the patients exhibited brachymesophalangy or hypoplastic thumbs. The latest report noted that patients with EA and Feingold syndrome were also those with the more complex and severe phenotype. However, following a thorough review of the present literature, the same association was not found, which is also confirmed by the case we described. 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