Rao et al. (2017) screened six known disease‐causing genes (LRP5, KIF11, NDP, ZNF408, FZD4, TSPAN12) in 31 pedigrees with FEVR and depicted the mutation spectrum in Chinese (Rao et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene TSPAN12 and Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy.