ATOH7 and eye disorder: To this date, several mutations in ATOH7 have been associated with human eye disorders (Table 1) leading to a spectrum of vitreoretinal traits, including persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPVAR; OMIM: #221900), nonsyndromic congenital retinal nonattachment (NCRNA; OMIM: #221900), familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (EVR; OMIM: #133780), as well as bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH; OMIM: #165550) [24,25,26,27,28,29].