Mutations in the EPHA2 gene can cause a variety of congenital (Zhang et al., 2009; Kaul et al., 2010; Park et al., 2012; Dave et al., 2013; Li et al., 2016; Berry et al., 2018; Zhai et al., 2019) and age-related (Jun et al., 2009; Tan et al., 2011; Sundaresan et al., 2012; Lin et al., 2014) cataracts (Table 1). Here, EPHA2 is linked to cataract.