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Pathologies such as optic nerve or retinal epithelium atrophy, iris or optic disc coloboma as well as congenital cataracts have been most frequently described until now. Therefore, we would like to report the first case of bilateral developmental cataract in a 9-year-old girl with MWS who underwent successful cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation. Case Presentation: A 9-year-old girl, diagnosed with p.Gln694Ter mutation in ZEB2 gene and suspicion of MWS was referred to the Children\u2019s Outpatient Ophthalmology Clinic for ophthalmological evaluation. Her previous assessments revealed abnormalities of the optic nerve discs. The patient was diagnosed with atrophy of the optic nerves, convergent strabismus, and with-the-rule astigmatism. One year later, during the follow-up visit, the patient was presented with decreased visual acuity (VA), developmental total cataract in the right eye and a developmental partial cataract in the left eye. This resulted in decreased VA confirmed by deteriorated responses in visual evoked potential (VEP) test. The girl underwent a two-stage procedure of cataract removal, first of one eye and then of the other eye with artificial lens implants. In the 2 years following the operation, no complications were observed and, most remarkably, VA improved significantly. Conclusions: The ZEB2 gene is primarily responsible for encoding the Smad interaction protein 1 (SIP1), which is involved in the proper development of various eye components. When mutated, it results in multilevel abnormalities, also in the proper lens formation, that prevent the child from normal vision development. This typically results in the formation of congenital cataracts in children with MWS syndrome, however, our case shows that it also leads to the formation of developmental cataracts. This is presumably due to the effect of the lack of SIP1 on other genes, altering their downstream expression and is a novel insight into the importance of the SIP1 in the occurrence of ocular pathologies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of bilateral developmental cataract in the context of MWS. Moreover, a novel mutation (p.Gln694Ter) in the ZEB2 gene was found corresponding to this syndrome entity. This report allows us to gain a more comprehensive insight into the genetic spectrum and the corresponding phenotypic features in MWS syndrome patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina59010101","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,2]],"date-time":"2023-01-02T03:00:59Z","timestamp":1672628459000},"page":"101","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["First Case Report of Developmental Bilateral Cataract with a Novel Mutation in the ZEB2 Gene Observed in Mowat-Wilson Syndrome"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"59","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3651-4017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Agnieszka","family":"Tronina","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Silesia, Kornel Gibi\u0144ski University Clinical Center, 40-055 Katowice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marta","family":"\u015awierczy\u0144ska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Silesia, Kornel Gibi\u0144ski University Clinical Center, 40-055 Katowice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4227-1349","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Erita","family":"Filipek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatric Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Silesia, Kornel Gibi\u0144ski University Clinical Center, 40-055 Katowice, Poland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2652","DOI":"10.1093\/hmg\/ddt114","article-title":"ZEB2 zinc-finger missense mutations lead to hypomorphic alleles and a mild Mowat-Wilson syndrome","volume":"22","author":"Ghoumid","year":"2013","journal-title":"Hum. 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